In this artwork, how is the Description discussed?
The Cubist sculpture is a simplified, abstracted bust of a human head, inspired by primitive art and archaeological specimens: parallels have been drawn with the features of human figurines in Cycladic art.  The head is flattened into an irregular quadrilateral plaque with slightly curving sides, which rests on an integral pedestal and base.  The plate has two shallow elliptical depressions, a deeper vertical along the left edge and a shallower horizontal one inside the top edge, interpreted as the nose and an eye.
Copies of the sculpture were made in terracotta, plaster, marble, and bronze.  A small preliminary terracotta version, with the vertical depression to the right rather than the left, measures 4.21 in × 3.42 in × 1.69 in (10.7 cm × 8.7 cm × 4.3 cm). Different plaster and bronze copies of the full-size sculpture have slightly different measurements, all around 40 cm × 36.5 cm × 6.5 cm (15.7 in × 14.4 in × 2.6 in).
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