Hand carved from solid stone in the mid twentieth century, this sculptural work sits firmly within the modernist figurative tradition that prioritised mass, compression, and reduced human form. The figure is resolved through architectural block volumes rather than surface detail, its inward folding posture emphasising weight, gravity, and containment in a manner consistent with early to mid century European modernism. The sculptural language aligns with the restrained figurative abstraction explored by artists such as Henri Laurens and Lucien Wercollier, and finds close resonance with Australian modernist stone practice of the same period. Unmarked and sculptor made, the work reads as a serious interior object, carrying a quiet physical authority that holds space without narrative excess.

Measures: 35 cm W × 48 cm D × 75 cm H

Conditioned for presence and atmosphere

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