Modernist Cast Bronze Elongated Figure on Terrazzo Base View Watchlist >
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Lot # G237
System ID # 30477668
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Modernist Cast Bronze Elongated Figure on Terrazzo Base
A slender cast bronze figure rises from a wedge-shaped terrazzo base in this mid-century-styled abstract sculpture. The elongated form — an attenuated head and neck stretching skyward above a segmented, blade-like body — draws on the vocabulary of postwar figural abstraction, where the human silhouette is pared to gesture and line. The bronze carries a warm patina with darker recesses and lighter high points along the ridges, the surface textured from casting.
The figure is set into a trapezoidal base of black-and-gray terrazzo, the crushed aggregate reading as a dense field of dark stone against a pale binder. The piece is unmarked, with no visible foundry stamp or artist signature. The reaching, upward-thrust pose and the pairing of raw bronze with a poured composite base place it comfortably within the decorative modernist idiom of the 1960s–70s.
CONDITION
Fair. The bronze figure is intact with age-appropriate patina and casting texture. The terrazzo base is chipped, with several chips to the edges and corners of the stone.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall: 16 1/2" H × 2 1/4" W × 2 1/2" D
- Weight: 2 lbs
- Materials: Cast bronze, terrazzo/stone base
- Markings: Unmarked
- Campbell's Soup Can (4" H) Shown for Scale — Not Included
