Bronze Sculpture "the Gymnast" Signed Milo 20th Century

‘The Gymnast’ bronze sculpture on a marble base.
Dimensions: 36 cm high including base.
It is signed Milo, numbered 17696 and stamped Bronze garanti Paris JB déposé on the base.

Miguel Fernando López, known as Milo (born in Lisbon in 1955), is a Portuguese post-war and contemporary sculptor with an international reputation. He works for a number of renowned foundries, mainly creating small-scale bronzes.

With La gymnaste, he is as interested in the representation of a sport as he is in that of the body. The sculpture depicts a naked, lanky woman in a position that evokes suppleness and grace. The effect is heightened by the height of the Portor marble base and the presence of her leg reaching for the sky.

In his work, the sculptor is interested in the flexibility that the body can achieve and the twists to which it can be subjected.
The nudity of this gymnast raises the work to the level of an academic exercise (i.e. the representation of the nude), and not just the representation of a sport. The artist leaves no stone unturned.

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