Lot 188
TORSO WITH LONG HAIR
1956
Limestone
67 cm (h)
| 8 980 €
| 11 429 €
The author of the sculpture Břetislav Benda graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and was a pupil of J. V. Myslbek and Jan Štursa. During his life, he created an extensive work of more than a hundred sculptures in life and life, and the main theme that Benda dealt with was the female figure, especially in the form of an act. Benda himself adds: "I don't know a motif more beautiful than a woman in all her variations, for sculptors there is an inexhaustible subject. With my sculptures I want to express the infinite beauty of the human body, but also other feelings. ”The work comes from the estate of Břetislav Benda. The submitted Torso with long hair bears a certificate of origin with the signatures of the author's grandchildren.
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