(1922 - 2000)
Glutted Death
Bronze, dark brown patina
33 x 21 x 17 inches
1981, Signed and dated on base, "19 Leonard Baskin 81" and © KENNEDY GALLERIES, N.Y.' (on the reverse) and with the foundry mark 'BEDI - MAKKY FDRY. N.Y.'
The tiny edition is probably 4, and perhaps not all were cast.
"My sculptures are memorials to ordinary human beings, gigantic monuments to the unnoticed dead: the exhausted factory worker, the forgotten tailor, the unsung poet... Sculpture at its greatest and most monumental is about simple, abstract, emotional states, like fear, pride, love and envy... Over the years I have developed a series of images of predatory birds and vicious human beings as well as producing a bizarre motley of iconic devices that say...BASKIN!"
Death, as a great devouring “angel”, eating beyond its capacity, glutted, yet ever moving forward, lumbering yet unstoppable, is a haunting image which Baskin explored in many forms throughout his career. In this figure of Death, all too human, it is impossible not to see our own appetites.
Richard Michelson, Northampton
"My sculptures are memorials to ordinary human beings, gigantic monuments to the unnoticed dead: the exhausted factory worker, the forgotten tailor, the unsung poet... Sculpture at its greatest and most monumental is about simple, abstract, emotional states, like fear, pride, love and envy... Over the years I have developed a series of images of predatory birds and vicious human beings as well as producing a bizarre motley of iconic devices that say...BASKIN!"
Death, as a great devouring “angel”, eating beyond its capacity, glutted, yet ever moving forward, lumbering yet unstoppable, is a haunting image which Baskin explored in many forms throughout his career. In this figure of Death, all too human, it is impossible not to see our own appetites.
Richard Michelson, Northampton
PROVENANCE
Kennedy Galleries, published, 1981-82
Private collection
EXHIBITED
Galerie Ste. Etienne, New York, 2008
LITERATURE
See for comparisons and background: Jaffe, Irma B. The Sculpture of LEONARD BASKIN. 224 pp. with 142 figs. Folio, cloth. New York, Viking, 1980
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