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. |
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.
An animated female body is a vessel of perfection.
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.
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.
baroque, Classical, Renaissance