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Rustic Sculptural Carved Bench
Ref: 3110
The decorative vocabulary of the people of the remote mountain villages in Eastern Europe was seemingly something quite separate from the town style with its derivations of the classical. In its jagged, abstract and expressive character it is akin to African tribal art or indeed modern art forms - which latter affinity makes perfect sense of course as the modern artist of Paris were looking to African and primitive forms as part of their search for sexual and social liberation and their revolutionary rejection of traditional Western forms - it is curious to think that this bench was produced in Europe around the time of Picasso's Demoiselles or Stravinsky's Rite of Spring but in worlds almost entirely cut off from each other. Even now though we can appreciate the artistic quality as a fresh and individual expression.
Made of beechwood with a pine seat, it is solid and also low seated and so something to enjoy as a decorative, hall or sculptural piece.
Carpathians 19th/ early 20th cent.
H: 58.5cm (23.0in)
W: 169cm (66.5in)
D: 41cm (16.1in)
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