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"As a child, I used to play with my sister's dolls, attracted above all by their garments. I broke the taboo on a boy playing with dolls by taking the broken figure of a swimmer and swaddling it in ribbons of various kinds."
Michel Nedjar grew up in Choisy, a village north of Paris and his art bears the influence of his father, who was a tailor, and his grandmother, a ragpicker. Explaining the genesis of his sculptures, Nedjar relates, "It's grandmother for the fabrics and father for the needlework which pulls the pieces together. The ragpicker and the tailor: it's stranger how I combined those two things, to give birth to a little creature. The dolls I make are really their child: the central point where my grandmother's and my father's energies flow together" (European Outsiders, New York, 1986, p. 57).
PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT M. GREENBERG COLLECTION
MICHEL NEDJAR (b. 1947)
Poupee
Details
MICHEL NEDJAR (b. 1947)
Poupee
fabric, string and soil
30 x 8¼ in. (76 x 21 cm.)
Poupee
fabric, string and soil
30 x 8¼ in. (76 x 21 cm.)
Provenance
Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne, France