George Segal
New York City 1924 - 2000
Photo©Giorgio Colombo, Milano - Palazzo Grassi, Venezia, 1980
Segal's studio ... There were a lot of dark rooms, and in each of them there was a sculpture or a group: white in a dark setting, dimly lit. They were ghosts of people without bodies immersed in a timeless time where life had silently dissolved, leaving behind memories of living things.
George Segal, Sunbathers on Rooftop, 1963-1967. Plaster and wood, 87 x 367 x 243,8 cm. MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Panza Collection, 1986. © The George and Helen Segal Foundation / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo Brian Forest, Los Angeles
George Segal, Man in the Armchair, 1969. Plaster and wood, 124,46 x 71,12 x 91,44 cm. MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Panza Collection, 1987. © The George and Helen Segal Foundation / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo Brian Forest, Los Angeles