Adolescent II

George Minne (1866 1941)

Date
1923
Medium
Bronze with brown patina
Dimensions
Height: 46 cm
Inscription
Signed on plinth: G Minne
Inventory Number
1954Pl003
Acquisition
Purchased in 1954

George Minne is con sidered one of the major Symbolist sculptors in Belgium around 1900. Since the 1890s Minne had explored the gaunt figure of a boy with a Gothic elongation of the limbs. The standing figure is exemplary of the sculptor’s work and is impressive in the creative power of the line and the emphasis on the contour of the body that stands in tense opposition to the expressive gesture of the raised arms. The exaggeration turns Minne’s youth into a symbol of pain, solitude and grief.

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