Bronze

Igor MITORAJ (1944-2014) “Portrait of a man” Bronze sculpture with brown patina Cubic base in marble Signed “Mitoraj” at the bottom of the bronze. H: 8 cm (without base) H: 14 cm (with base) Bronze edited at the request of stylist & designer Paco Rabanne in 1984. Of Polish origin, Mitoraj shared his life between Paris and Pietrasanta, in Italy, from the end of the 1960s. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions (France, Spain, Germany, Italy, United States, etc.). In 1981, he created his first monumental sculpture, Grand Toscano, now at La Défense. Since 1995, his monumental sculpture Thshuki-No-Ikari, purchased by the British Museum, has been displayed in front of the colonnade of the famous Museum. In Paris - La Défense, one can admire since 1997 the monumental Tindaro head in front of the KPMG tower, and since 2000, one can admire three new sculptures Ikaria (Adria Tower), Ikaro (Ernst & Young Tower) and Centurion (Fiat Tower). Claudio Malberti in “Igor Mitoraj, Milan, 1986” speaks to us in these terms of Mitoraj's work: “His sculpture focuses attention exclusively on the human figure. No other interest, no other digression. No concession to cerebral artifice, but an essential sculpture, instinctively, almost an expressive necessity… his sculptures are there to testify to all the fragility and all the precariousness of human existence”.