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bronze, signed with initials in the bronze, mounted to an ebonised plinth base19.5cm high (24.5cm high overall)Provenance:Purchased by the present vendor's father directly from the artist in London, circa 1960Footnote: A seminal figure in contemporary sculpture, Israeli born sculptor, painter and graphic artist, Menashe Kasdishman, received his early training under Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, before moving to London, in 1959, where he continued his training at St Martin’s School of Art and, later, at The Slade.Cast in bronze and dating from the earliest years of Kadishman’s career, the present lot is heavily indebted to modern minimalist sculpture and cites the work of Henry Moore as an important influence. Informed by allegories and parables, and straddling Western and Non-Western artistic traditions, Kadishman’s Totemic Crucifix penetrates the veil that separates art and anthropology.

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