Lot Essay
The present lot was a design for a (never executed) monument on the Inga dam in former Belgian Kongo.
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A Couple
Details
Olivier Strebelle (Belgian, b. 1927)
A Couple
signed with initials, dated, numbered and with the foundry mark 'OS 53 1/5 Cera Persa Brotal Menorisio' (on the bronze base)
bronze with a brown green patina
56 cm. high (incl the bronze base)
Conceived in 1953 in an edition of 5
A Couple
signed with initials, dated, numbered and with the foundry mark 'OS 53 1/5 Cera Persa Brotal Menorisio' (on the bronze base)
bronze with a brown green patina
56 cm. high (incl the bronze base)
Conceived in 1953 in an edition of 5
Literature
S. Orloff ed., Olivier Strebelle, Logboek van een kunstenaar, Ghent 1986, p. 52 (the larger version ill.) and p. 324, no. 98 (another cast ill.)
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