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Pair of Bronze Bas Relief Wall Plaques by Kahlil Gibran

$3,600List Price

About the Item

A Pair of bronze bas relief wall plaques by Kahlil Gibran, circa 1970s. The male bas relief is entitled "Profile Of Job", and the other "Hairy Head" were both done in 1969. The pieces are slightly different in size. "Profile of Job" measures 9" x 7", and the "Hairy Head" measures 8 3/4" x 6 1/2". Each is approximately 1/8" thick. Both plaques have hangers on the backs, so that they can be hung on a wall. Both are fully signed "K. GIBRAN" (Job lower right, and Hairy Head lower left) Kahlil G. Gibran (1922 – 2008), sometimes known as "Kahlil George Gibran", was a Lebanese American painter and sculptor from Boston, Massachusetts. A student of the painter Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibran first received acclaim as a magic realist painter in the late 1940s when he exhibited with other emerging artists later known as the "Boston Expressionists". Called a "master of materials", as both artist and restorer, Gibran turned to sculpture in the mid-fifties. He was grouped together with the Boston artists Jack Levine and Hyman Bloom as a key member of the Boston Expressionist school of painting, and through his teaching influenced a generation of painters, including, among others, David Aronson, Bernard Chaet, Reed Kay, Arthur Polonsky, Jack Kramer, Barbara Swan, Andrew Kooistra, and Lois Tarlow. His skill and creativity as a sculptor catapulted Kahlil to international renown. Among the highlights of his many accolades are two Guggenheim Fellowships in 1959 and 1960 respectively, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award in 1961, and the Gold Medal prize from the International Exhibit of 1966 in Trieste, Italy. While Kahlil’s sculpture can now be found in many prestigious public institutions—such as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Cheekwood Art Center; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1972, in an effort to separate his identity from his famous relative and namesake, the author of The Prophet, Gibran Kahlil Gibran, who was cousin both to his father Nicholas Gibran and his mother Rose Gibran, the sculptor co-authored with his wife Jean a biography of the poet entitled Kahlil Gibran His Life And World. Gibran is known for multiple skills, including painting; wood, wax, and stone carving; welding; and instrument making. A long time admirer and collector of medals, by 1977, Gibran's first significant effort relating to that medium was a bas relief portrait of his cousin for a monument sited in Copley Square across from the main branch of the Boston Public Library. Sculpting in wax led to several commissions, including bas reliefs Cardinal Richard Cushing, Amy Beach, Elliot Norton medal and portrait heads Karon, Najwa, Nureyev, Self Portrait. Finally he had the time and, as always, the passion to fulfill a childhood promise to honor his parents Rose Gibran (her maiden name) and Nicholas Gibran. In 1981, Gibran's monumental sculpture the 12 foot bronze Lady of the Cedars of Lebanon was placed on a high Jamaica Plain hill on a Roxbury puddingstone ledge, at the site of the Maronite Church to which the family belonged.

Dimensions:
Height: 9 in (22.86 cm)Width: 7 in (17.78 cm)Depth: 0.13 in (3.31 mm)
Style:
Brutalist (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Bronze
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1969
Condition:
Good vintage condition.
Seller Location:
Providence, RI
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU943030602022

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