
André Masson
Uccello affascinato da un serpente
1942
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Germaine Richier
1945-46 (fusione del 2007)
Forest Man is one of Germaine Richier’s most celebrated and characteristic works. Real pieces of wood and bark, as well as a large leaf found by the artist in the Valais, Switzerland, were collaged onto the clay before casting. Unlike Daphne, the nymph from Classical Greek mythology who was entirely transformed into a laurel tree, Forest Man is half-tree half-human. Whether a metamorphosis will take place, in one direction or another, is not revealed to us. The magic that emanates from this strange sylvan creature, so expressive of the artist’s affinity with the unromantic forces of nature, is its balletic pose—the halting step and the suspended arms. Richier described movement in her figures, with regard to Forest Man and other works of the period, as follows: “I would rather suggest it. My sculpture should give the impression of being still and at the same time about to move” (quoted by the artist’s niece Françoise Guiter in the catalogue of the exhibition Germaine Richier. Retrospective, Saint Paul, Fondation Maeght, 5 April - 25 June 1966, p. 33).
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Artista | Germaine Richier |
Titolo originale | L'Homme-forêt, grand |
Data | 1945-46 (fusione del 2007) |
Tecnica | Bronzo patinato scuro |
Dimensioni | 94 x 45 x 45 cm |
Credit line | Fondazione Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York. Donazione della famiglia di Germaine Richier |
Inventario | 2007.147 |
Collezione | Acquisizioni e donazioni |
Tipologia | Scultura |
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André Masson
1942
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Berenice Abbott
1942
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Marcel Jean
1935-42
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Germaine Richier
1953
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