Tendresse
Description
Executed in: 1980
Medium: Basalt stone
Size: 52 x 20 x 15 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed and dated on the bottom
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
This artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by the Alfred Basbous Foundation.
Location
Beirut
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Description
Alfred Basbous is a modernist sculptor that was a central figure in the development and advancement of modernism in the Middle East during the latter part of the twentieth century. With innate talent and rigorous artistic training, he was the recipient of a scholarship from the French government in 1960 and was a student of renowned French sculptor René Collamarini at L’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Basbous is a part of an essential movement that shaped post-war, modern approaches to sculpture. The spirit of avant-gardism of the time matched the topics and aesthetics which were pertinent to the Middle East. Basbous’ aesthetic philosophy is grounded in the simplicity of form – shape, movement and line. His abstracted figures are handled much in the same way as Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Jean Arp. Celebrating the human form is a central theme within his oeuvre. Basbous was particularly adept at articulating his appreciation for the female figure into material form like in the work Tendresse.
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