Lot Essay
In 1954 Manzù was invited to the International Summer Academy in Salzburg. His friend Friedrich Welz engaged Inge, a young girl from a local dance school, to act as the sculptor's model.
[Manzù] found himself in the presence of someone who
embodied precisely what he wished to shape and express...
Neither tall nor of the fragile elegance that characterizes
so many dancers, Inge combined radiant health with the
particular grace that the study of classical dancing lends
to all bodies...But it was the noble beauty of her regular
features which especially attracted Manzù; the fine straight
nose, the almond-shaped eyes, the conspicuously delineated mouth... (J. Rewald, Manzù, Greenwich, 1967, pp. 64 and 67)
[Manzù] found himself in the presence of someone who
embodied precisely what he wished to shape and express...
Neither tall nor of the fragile elegance that characterizes
so many dancers, Inge combined radiant health with the
particular grace that the study of classical dancing lends
to all bodies...But it was the noble beauty of her regular
features which especially attracted Manzù; the fine straight
nose, the almond-shaped eyes, the conspicuously delineated mouth... (J. Rewald, Manzù, Greenwich, 1967, pp. 64 and 67)