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Lot Essay
The present work is a highly interesting and important drawing that represents an elaborate and powerful constructed iron sculpture which Gonzlez never built.
Executed in 1937, at the same time as a number of drawings for the large free-standing sculpture Femme au Miroir of 1937, Abstrait has often been considered to be a more fanciful study for this largest and most celebrated of Gonzlez's sculptures. A number of other related drawings from this period such as Personnage Rose adn Personnage Fantastique however, suggest otherwise. They indicate that Gonzlez was preoccupied with a wide variety of sculptural concepts in 1937 of which Femme au Miroir was only one. In addition, the fact that two of the forms of the figure in the present work relate closely to the sculptures Forme rigide and Forme severe also suggests that the sculptural outline in Abstrait is a design for a different large free-standing sculpture that Gonzlez intended and perhaps started to build, but regretably never completed.
Executed in 1937, at the same time as a number of drawings for the large free-standing sculpture Femme au Miroir of 1937, Abstrait has often been considered to be a more fanciful study for this largest and most celebrated of Gonzlez's sculptures. A number of other related drawings from this period such as Personnage Rose adn Personnage Fantastique however, suggest otherwise. They indicate that Gonzlez was preoccupied with a wide variety of sculptural concepts in 1937 of which Femme au Miroir was only one. In addition, the fact that two of the forms of the figure in the present work relate closely to the sculptures Forme rigide and Forme severe also suggests that the sculptural outline in Abstrait is a design for a different large free-standing sculpture that Gonzlez intended and perhaps started to build, but regretably never completed.