Untitled
1959 · Ink on paper
12 7/8 x 9 3/4" (32.6 x 24.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Roél d'Haese
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John S. Newberry: A Memorial Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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Roél d'Haese was a Belgian sculptor working in bronze, creating intricate small-scale forms that moved fluidly between abstraction and figuration. His postwar practice combined expressionist sensibility with formal precision, employing organic and biomorphic vocabularies with deliberate restraint. The delicate surfaces and spatial complexity of his bronzes suggest influence from both modernist reduction and natural morphology, positioning his work as a bridge between gestural abstraction and anthropomorphic suggestion.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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