La Grande Nevrose | |||||||||||
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| Name of Work | La Grande Nevrose | ||||||||||
| Production Date | c.1896 | ||||||||||
| Production Location | France Paris | ||||||||||
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| Media Types | marble | ||||||||||
| General Notes | This work is somewhat reminiscent of Bernini's famous ecstasy statue of "Blessed Ludovica Albertoni", in Rome. | ||||||||||
Description
An approximately 3/4 full-size nude woman, lying down. She is in some state of tension, excitement. The statue is highly finished and naturalistic in its female nude idealism.
Theme
An animated female body is a vessel of perfection.
Emotional Sum or Sense-of-life
The dynamic female body is beautiful and exciting. Although it may not explicitly suggest it, the nude and its tense position could be felt as erotic.
Context Information
The sculptor never sold it (considered it his greatest work), and then it was in the sculptor's family for most of a century, and then sold at auction in 2017 for 10 times what Sotheby's estimated. Presumably to a private collector, so no information on where it may exist.
Tags
baroque, Classical, Renaissance
Scale
