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Andrey Lekarski, Draped Bronze Bust with Paintbrush, Marble Base, 1992

$2,299.50
£1,704.47
€2,340VAT Included
CA$3,207.91
A$3,254.31
CHF 1,858.04
MX$39,404.63
NOK 21,873.66
SEK 21,801.07
DKK 14,873.14

About the Item

A stylized bronze bust by Bulgarian-born French artist Andrey Lekarski (born 1940), executed in 1992 and presented on a marble base. The figure is draped and crowned with a paintbrush a quietly surrealist gesture that conflates the human form with the artist's tool, collapsing the boundary between subject and creator, between the one who makes and the one who is made. Trained in Sofia before settling in Paris in the 1960s, Lekarski developed a hybrid practice spanning sculpture and painting, rooted in a symbolic and oneiric imagination where figure, object, and poetic invention meet. His work has been shown across Europe and is held in numerous public and private collections, attesting to the sustained critical and institutional recognition his practice has earned over six decades. The paintbrush as crown transforms this bust into something more than portraiture it becomes an emblem of the creative act itself, rendered in bronze with quiet authority. The work is signed by the artist.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14.57 in (37 cm)Width: 9.85 in (25 cm)Depth: 5.91 in (15 cm)
  • Style:
    Beaux Arts (In the Style Of)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
    1990-1999
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1992
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FR
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU9892250368112

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