dimensions: 14x7cm

This work is a pewter sculpture created in 1973 by Nadine Effront, an artist renowned for her modern work with pure, sensual forms. Mineral and almost biomorphic in appearance, this piece reveals Effront's interest in pure lines and organic simplicity, an aesthetic that is both tactile and enigmatic, inviting the viewer to contemplate and interpret.

Nadine Effront (1901-1974), a Belgian-French sculptor, remained close to the Surrealist avant-garde circles and was the partner of the painter Oscar Dominguez. Her work, often in bronze, tin, or aluminum, is marked by a search for poetic abstraction, but also by a discreet humor and elegance of form. Exhibited in major institutions, including the Centre Pompidou and galleries in Paris and Brussels, Effront has established a personal style, oscillating between mystery, gentleness, and modernity.

His sculptural language favors simple, polished, sometimes ambiguous volumes, evoking nature, the body or dreams.