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Lot Essay
Compare with: C. Blotkamp, Carel Visser, Utrecht/Antwerpen 1989, p. 59, no. 44.
Blotkamp states: 'A significant moment in Visser's early work was the appearance of animals in pairs. (....) In the form language which Visser employed during this period, several different artistic lines can be distinguished. Some of his pieces are wonderfully fragile, transparent and irregular, while others are solid, austere and rectilinear. The bird pieces are mainly of the first type, and there is much here which is reminiscent of Giacometti. The animals are mostly slender and elongated, and due to the irregularities of molten iron which are visible in the welding joints, the surface seems almost modelled. The last work in the series, Mating birds (early 1954, Haags Gemeentemuseum), represents a parture from this pattern. The two birds have more volume and are almost identical in shape and position, one standing stiffly on top of the other. (see Blotkamp, opcit p. 58-59).
Blotkamp states: 'A significant moment in Visser's early work was the appearance of animals in pairs. (....) In the form language which Visser employed during this period, several different artistic lines can be distinguished. Some of his pieces are wonderfully fragile, transparent and irregular, while others are solid, austere and rectilinear. The bird pieces are mainly of the first type, and there is much here which is reminiscent of Giacometti. The animals are mostly slender and elongated, and due to the irregularities of molten iron which are visible in the welding joints, the surface seems almost modelled. The last work in the series, Mating birds (early 1954, Haags Gemeentemuseum), represents a parture from this pattern. The two birds have more volume and are almost identical in shape and position, one standing stiffly on top of the other. (see Blotkamp, opcit p. 58-59).