Inspired by Hammershoi's subtle use of colour I dug out a photograph of a sculpture taken at the wonderful Pergamon Museum in Berlin last year and painted this picture from the photo. This is painted in oil on board (MDF). A larger version will be posted to my website (www.miketoddart.net) in due course. Unfortunately I didn't make a note of the sculptor.
Youth (torso). Oil on board. (c) Mike Todd 2008.
There was an interesting argument presented recently by Waldemar Januszczak on Channel4's Sculpture Diaries relating to these incomplete sculptural artefacts and our views of the human form and 'deformity'. Check it out on Channel4's 'Catch-Up' in the next 15 days - if you've got Windows!
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