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Portrait of Clovis Aet. 2 Weeks 1993

  • Portrait of Clovis Aet. 2 Weeks
  • Catalogue raisonné no. 578
  • Artist's CR 538
  • September, 1993
  • New York
  • Bronze and nickel-plated bronze
  • Edition of 10
  • 9 x 4.5 x4.5 inches / 23 x 11 x11 cm

Selected Citations and Comments

My head of Clovis was inspired by [Aimé-Jules] Dalou’s head of a baby and Dalou is one of the most profoundly Romantic sculptors I can think of. He influenced British sculpture enormously during his exile here as a result of his involvement with the Paris Commune of 1872, a political commitment typical of a Romantic sculptor.

Gerald Laing, Gerald Laing: Sculpture at Chisenbury, exhibition catalogue, Chisenbury Priory, 2002