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Label Text Manuel Neri had been a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene for many years. His life-sized female figures and fragments of busts and torsos evoke a timeless quality which recall classical sculpture and the "unfinished" works of Michelangelo or partial figures of Rodin, yet his work is clearly embodied in Bay Area figurative painterly tradition. It is a dualism, if not a contradiction--a fundamental ambiguity--that sets this artist's work apart. Source: Bulletin, May-June 1985.
Exhibition History"Selected Cowles Family Gifts to the Permanent Collection," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Published ReferencesMANUEL NERI, 1984, co-published by Anne Kohs & Associaates, John Berggruen Gallery, Charles Cowles Gallery, Gimpel- Hanover and Andre Emmerich Gallery, Zurich, color repro. p. 72
DimensionsOverall: 29 1/2 × 12 × 14 in. (74.9 × 30.5 × 35.6 cm)
Accession Number 1985.1
Classificationssculpture
Busto de Mujer No. 2 (Bust of a Woman No. 2)
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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