Johan De Maegt (1906 - 1987). Imposing Bronze: "strength" Male Nude.

Johan DE MAEGT (1906 - 1987).
"Strength"
Male nude.
Nude man pushing a block of stone.

Bronze with green patina.
Signed on the base by Maegt.

Resting on a magnificent and imposing black Mazy marble base. Belgian work.

Dim. (with base): +/- 33 x 20 x 62 cm Bronze (without base)
+/- 27x48x14 cm.

Very good condition for the bronze and the black marble (the marble shows minimal traces of use, see photos).

This work illustrates human strength and resilience through the exaltation of the male body in movement. The nude, stripped of all artifice, becomes the universal language of energy and will. The emphasis placed on the contracted musculature and the forward-leaning posture translates the struggle of man against matter, a metaphor for existential effort. In mid-20th-century art, the male nude retains a symbolic value inherited from Antiquity: it is both a celebration of the physical ideal and the vehicle of a philosophical message, here that of inner power in the face of trials. The naked man, anchored in a monumental action, is part of a plastic tradition where the beauty of the body is inseparable from the representation of vital force.


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