Alice I (Feet Crossed)
A delicate porcelain figure of Alice rendered in Kiki Smith's characteristically intimate and corporeal style, the young girl depicted with her feet crossed in a pose that evokes both vulnerability and quiet contemplation. Smith transforms the familiar literary heroine into a sculptural meditation on the female body, childhood, and identity, her choice of porcelain lending the work a fragile, luminous quality that recalls both fine china and human skin. The work invites reflection on girlhood and the stories society constructs around it, hallmarks of Smith's broader artistic inquiry into the body and myth.
- Medium
- porcelain
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
September 19, 2013
Collectors with works by Kiki Smith
Artists in conversation
Louise Bourgeois
French-American · b. 1911
Bourgeois similarly used sculpture to explore the female body, vulnerability, and psychological states of girlhood and womanhood, often working with delicate materials like fabric and bronze to evoke skin and fragility. Her figurative works share Smith's deeply intimate corporeal language and meditation on identity through the body.
Berlinde De Bruyckere
Belgian · b. 1964
De Bruyckere creates figurative sculptures that foreground bodily vulnerability and quiet suffering, using materials that evoke human skin and fragility in ways directly comparable to Smith's porcelain figure. Both artists transform the human form into meditations on tenderness, exposure, and the interior life of the body.
Camille Claudel
French · b. 1864
Claudel crafted intimate figurative sculptures in materials like marble and bronze that captured contemplative bodily poses with exceptional delicacy, closely paralleling Smith's attention to the stillness and vulnerability of the female form. Her works share the same luminous fragility and emotional interiority present in this porcelain Alice figure.
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