
Autoportrait quadrillé
1984
A bronze self-portrait by César featuring a gridded composition, created in 1984. The work demonstrates the artist's exploration of form and perspective through sculptural means.
- Medium
- bronze
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Art Contemporain Day Sale
November 23, 2021
Estimate: $15,000 to $20,000
Lot 189
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Artists in conversation

George Segal
American · b. 1924

Segal created figurative bronze and plaster sculptures that similarly explore the human form and self portraiture with a raw textural surface quality. His work shares César's interest in capturing physical presence and personal identity through sculptural casting techniques.

Duane Hanson
American · b. 1925

Hanson worked extensively with cast sculptural self portraits and figurative works that investigate surface texture and structural composition in three dimensions. His meticulous attention to grid like spatial organization and formal precision in bronze and resin closely parallels César's approach in this gridded self portrait.

Arnaldo Pomodoro
Italian · b. 1926

Pomodoro is renowned for bronze sculptures featuring geometric grid patterns and structured surface fragmentation that directly echo the quadrillé composition of this self portrait. His lifelong exploration of bronze as a medium combined with systematic geometric patterning makes his work the closest stylistic parallel to this specific piece.
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