This dramatic head, seemingly emerging from a deep sleep, expresses a psychological intensity typical of European sculpture just after the turn of the century. The modeled surface is deliberately uneven, with light catching each ridge and plane, a hallmark of the expressive realism associated with Rodin, whose impact on younger sculptors like Pina was profound. The head seems almost to dissolve at its lower edges; a choice aligned with the period’s interest in the fragment as a complete expressive form. Rather than classical completeness, this kind of work embraced motion, emotion, and the rawness of the sculptor’s hand. Pina’s sensitivity to the expressive possibilities of bronze places him among the sculptors who followed immediately after Rodin, artists such as Medardo Rosso and Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, who advanced a more psychological and impressionistic approach to form.