Charles Samuel Furniture

A brilliant depiction of Adam from the Creation of Man by the important Belgian scptor Charles Samuel, it is a model that he scpted in tandem with a scpture of Eve. Both are presen...

A brilliant depiction of Adam from the Creation of Man by the important Belgian scptor Charles Samuel, it is a model that he scpted in tandem with a scpture of Eve. Both are presented as vestal youths, totally naive and innocent as she hds the apple in her hand. In this counterpart, Adam looks across at Eve with his hand loosely outstretched to receive from her the apple from the tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil. Congruently, he is depicted entirely nude and unaware of his nakedness, a blindness that wod be removed after eating from the apple. It is an incredibly powerf work with many layers of beauty and is presented brilliantly over a turned and mded nero portero marble base.The casting quality is of particar note. Try superior modeling of the details is self-evident in the cast. His manner in which his hair is captured is perhaps one of the most beautif representations of human hair we have come across in some time. This is depicted as chaotic strand groupings, these intricately outlined with a freshness that feels like the original wax model is being manipated before your eyes. But despite the exceedingly good technical precision, Samuel does not stay in the lane of his academic training and introduces in Adam a stylizing of the figure and surfaces that removes him ever-so-slightly from reality. All elements are exquisitely executed, from his fingers, the sinuous muscature and his well-developed feet and toes. He is situated on a simple round base signed "Samuel Ch. Firenze 1911", this cd-stamped by the Erzgiesserei AG foundry in Vienna, Austria.Charles Samuel's work is incredibly scarce and rarely shows up on the open market and we have never seen this model present itself. It is a very powerf image of impeccable quality and great rarity. CHARLES SAMUEL (BELGIAN, 1862-1938)Born in Brussels on December 29th of 1862, Charles Samuel began his work as an artist apprenticed as a gdsmith to Philippe Wfers at the age of fifteen. He began his formal training starting in 1878 under scptor Louis Eugène Simonis, Charles van der Stappen...