Abstract Seated Figure Holding Head by Arlene Eichengreen and Nancy Ginsburg: Untitled; Numbered 9 / 12

Seated, knees up, holding its own head. Some days call for it.

This abstract seated figure holding its head is by Arlene Eichengreen and Nancy Ginsburg. It is aluminum, from the 20th century, untitled and numbered 9 of 12. Sculptors have long worked in small editions so that one idea can live in more than one room, and aluminum gave modern artists a light, bright, unapologetically industrial surface. A flat zigzag of metal forms the back and raised arm, cradling an egg-shaped head. Bent legs slope down over a mirrored block. Thirteen inches high and 11 wide.

Nobody has offered to take it from there.