Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Woman Sitting

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Woman Sitting
Alternate Title: 
Femme assise
Image View: 
Overall view from front left
Creator: 
Henri Laurens (French sculptor, 1885-1954)
Location: 
repository: Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) Inv. 1958-17
Location Note: 
20 Place des Terreaux
GPS: 
+45.766846+4.83363
Date: 
ca. 1931 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
maquette (sculpture)
Work Type 2: 
figurine
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
terracotta
Technique: 
modeling (forming)
Subjects: 
abstraction; human figure; nude in art; preparatory study
Description: 
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/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-LAURENS-FA-A02
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.