LAURENT, Robert

Concarneau, Finistère 1890 - Cape Neddick, near Ogunquit, Maine, United States 1970

Forme de plante

Plant Form

c. 1920-1923

wood on separate wood bae

free-standing abstract

Dimensions (HxWxD): overall with base: 21 ¹⁄₄ x 7 ¹⁄₄ x 7 ¹⁄₄ in.

incised on rear corner of self base: LAURENT

Acc. No.: 2008.1

Credit Line: Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum photograph, Creative Commons-BY

© Artist : Fair Use (Section 107, Copyright Act 1976)

New York, New York, Brooklyn Museum

www.brooklynmuseum.org

Provenance

• New York, Conner Rosenkranz
• 2008, Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Bibliography

• Museum's website (January 4, 2017)

Comment

• Museum's website (accessed January 4, 2017):
  In this hand-carved work, the French-born Brooklyn artist Robert Laurent formed three organic and erotic leaf forms that stretch upward with a turning or unfurling motion suggested by the complex interplay of their silhouettes. Throughout the 1920s artists often engaged living, natural forms as surrogates for the human body in works that celebrated physical presence as an antidote to modern, mechanized lives. Among his earliest freestanding sculptures (Laurent had previously carved frames and two-dimensional reliefs), this work is one of a small handful of plant and flame subjects by the artist.

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