Terracotta Sculpture of Bedouin Woman by E. M. Lévèque for Friedrich Goldscheider, 1897

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Friedrich GOLDSCHEIDER (1845-1897)
and
Auguste Maurice Lévèque (1864-1921)

Sklavin (Slave Woman) (aka Büste, Bedouine, Araberin mit großen Turban)

… Read more Friedrich GOLDSCHEIDER (1845-1897)
and
Auguste Maurice Lévèque (1864-1921)

Sklavin (Slave Woman) (aka Büste, Bedouine, Araberin mit großen Turban)

Terracotta with brown patina

h 63 cm

Manufacturer: Goldscheider

Signed and numbered 1101 174 6 (1101 being the model) on the back

year: 1897

One of the most beautiful and representative Orientalist sculptures by Friedrich Goldscheider manufacture in Vienna, in very fine condition.
This very subject is present in the cult movie Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni
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Orientalism, Beauty and Nostalgia

She sits in an eternal, quiet stillness, caught forever in the amber warmth of bronze-patinated terracotta. Her gaze is softly lowered, drawing the eye away from the viewer and into an intimate, inner world of quiet contemplation. Wrapped securely in a textured turban and draped in effortless folds that cross her shoulders like the quiet ripples of a dream, she embodies the romanticised elegance of a bygone salon era. Light plays softly across the smooth contours of her face and dances through the deep folds of her garments, giving breath and movement to a static form. It is an artwork that commands a room not through loud grandeur, but through an enduring, magnetic grace—a silent storyteller holding a century of history in the gentle tilt of her chin. This piece has an attribution mark,
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