Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Woman Sitting
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Alternate Title:
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Femme assise
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Image View:
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Overall view from front left
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Creator:
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Henri Laurens (French sculptor, 1885-1954)
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Location:
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repository: Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) Inv. 1958-17
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Location Note:
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20 Place des Terreaux
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GPS:
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+45.766846+4.83363
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Date:
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ca. 1931 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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maquette (sculpture)
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Work Type 2:
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figurine
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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terracotta
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Technique:
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modeling (forming)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; human figure; nude in art; preparatory study
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Description:
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In the late 1920's and 1930's Laurens readily admitted that he was now more inclined to abandon himself to subconscious inspiration, starting a sculpture with only a vague idea of his intended imagery and giving the work its title on completion. Like the series of Bathers painted by Picasso at Dinard in 1928-1929 or certain sculptures by Hans Arp, Laurens’s figures obey only an organic rhythm, which swells or lifts them, hollows or magnifies them in a joyful impulse. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-LAURENS-FA-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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