Sphinx

“ Sphinx ”

• Edition 565/1000
• 40 cm(l) x 23 cm(h)
• Marmor & Bronce
• artist: Ernst fuchs / Austria

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Dramatic bronze study of a lady reclining in the position  of a reclining sphinx with fine colour and smooth tactile surface, raised on a black marble base, numbered 565/1000 & signed Ernst Fuchs.

This erotic bronze sculpture of a lying sphinx was created by the Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs in the 1970s. The bronze is brown patinated and lies loosely on a black marble base. Ernst Fuchs made a series of sphinx sculptures which differ in the look of the hair and headdress. The sphinx, a figure of ancient Greek mythology, is supposed to be an enigmatic and baneful creature which gets an erotic connotation in the present depiction.