Seated Figure (1981)
Description
Medium: Bronze (black and blue patina, edition 6/8 + 4 A. P.)
Signed "A. Basbous 81", 6/8
Provenance
Private Collection, Lebanon. Acquired by the present owner from Basbous Foundation.
This artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Location
Beirut, Lebanon
Description
Alfred Basbous (1924-2006) was a prominent Lebanese sculptor. He and his brothers Michel and Joseph turned their village of Rachana, in North Lebanon, into a cultural landmark. Since his debut exhibition at Beirut’s Galerie Alecco Saab in 1958 and his studies at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Alfred Basbous restlessly pursued the development of his own œuvre.
This elegant Seated Figure epitomises the artist’s mastery of curved shapes in the carved material, whether it could be wood, marble or, in the present case, bronze. Still, this Seated Figure is more than a technical tour de force. It is an open enigma about the visible and the invisible, the abstract and the figurative. Art critic Nazih Khater wrote that “Alfred Basbous is a big but simple question mark in our sculpture scene (...). Perhaps poetry could be the answer to this question mark.”
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