
Standing girl looking right
1973
Standing Girl Looking Right presents the viewer with one of George Segal's most quietly commanding presences, a life-sized female figure rendered in raw white plaster and arrested in a moment of unhurried attention. Cast directly from a living model, the work carries the textured, almost archaeological quality that defines Segal's practice, where the evidence of process, the faint impressions of skin and cloth, remains embedded in the surface itself. The figure neither performs nor retreats; she simply stands, her gaze directed to the right with a stillness that feels both candid and monumental. At 107 centimeters in height, the sculpture occupies physical space with a human insistence that invites the collector to consider presence and proximity in equal measure. Executed in 1973, the work arrives from a particularly assured period in Segal's career, when his formal vocabulary had matured well beyond its Pop Art associations into something more philosophically resonant. The plaster medium, often mistaken for a preparatory material, was for Segal a deliberate final state, one that strips away color, identity, and social specificity to leave only posture, volume, and the poetry of an ordinary moment. The figure's slight rightward orientation introduces a gentle asymmetry and a sense of interrupted time, as though she has paused mid-thought and the world around her has simply caught up. For collectors drawn to figurative sculpture with genuine conceptual depth, this signed work represents a rare opportunity to acquire an object that is simultaneously intimate and timeless, domestic in scale yet quietly profound in its implications about the human condition.
- Medium
- Plaster
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Templon, Paris
- Spotted At
- Gallery · TemplonView on map
For Sale — $100000
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