Moshe Oved, The Winged Human, 1946-8

Moshe Oved 1885-1958

The Winged Human, 1946-8

bronze

38 x 28 x 18 cm

1988-41

Photo: Bridgeman images

Oved’s highly individual works with their esoteric titles express his ‘fantasies and visions through the medium of sculpture’. Both heads are part of a group of 16 bronzes he exhibited...

Provenance

presented in honour of the Mamlok family, 2015

Literature

Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 142.

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