Details
Benno Schotz
Mask of an Artist
1920, ochred plaster
12in. (30.5cm.) high
Further details
A bronze of this sculpture is in the collection of City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

When this sculpture was exhibited in 1920, it brought Schotz to the notice of critics and sculptors alike. "I came face to face with realism and tried to put down what I saw behind the mask. I tried to give the clay the living quality of the spirit".

Lot Essay

A bronze version of this sculpture was exhibited:
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1920, no. 4.
Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Annual Exhibition, 1920, no. 10. (illustrated).
Edinburgh, Benno Schotz Retrospective, Touring Exhibition, 1971, no. 4.
A bronze of this sculpture is in the collection of City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.
When this sculpture was exhibited in 1920, it brought Schotz to the notice of critics and sculptors alike, op. cit. Benno Schotz lecture., 1966. "I came face to face with realism and tried to put down what I saw behind the mask. I tried to give the clay the living quality of the spirit".

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