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Sculpture - Bronze - Green-brown patina - Sig. "MINNE" on the front of the plinth - 45,5 x 25,5 x 15,5 cm
Remarks Minne first showed this sculpture, of which the conception of forms is related to ancient Egyptian art, at Les Vingt in 1890. Here Minne starts a series of sculptures in which he achieves great tragic expressiveness through an extremely delicate modelé and a form synthesis that already refers to expressionism. Literature "George Minne" Leo van Puyvelde, Collection Les Contemporains, Bruxelles 1930, cf. cat. nr. 2 "George Minne en de kunst rond 1900" MSK, Ghent 1982, cf. cat. nrs. 5 en 6 (copy in plaster and bronze) "George Minne en Maurice Maeterlinck" MSK, Ghent 2011-12, tent. cat., cf. cat. nr. 13 (copy in plaster) "George Minne: Das Frühwerk und seine Rezeption in Deutschland und Österreich bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg" Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, Weimar 2012, cf. nr. P1 (copy in plaster and bronze)