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Monica Dael artwork • statue • sculpture • previously for sale The embrace

Dael M. van | Monica van Dael, The embrace, bronze 24.0 x 32.0 cm, signed on the bottom with monogram

Monica Dael

The embrace
bronze 24.0 x 32.0 cm, signed on the bottom with monogram

This sculpture was previously for sale.

The Rotterdam sculptor Monica van Dael often chooses female figures as subjects, but also male torsos or animals, especially birds. She often performs her work in stone, from bluestone and limestone to alabaster and serpentine, which she works according to the 'taille directe' technique. With this way of working, in which she works directly into the stone without prior studies or sketches, she puts expressiveness and emotion into her sculptures. She also casts sculptures in bronze in small quantities. Monica van Dael studied at the Vrije Akademie in Rotterdam and then took lessons in the technique of 'carving' with the Rotterdam sculptor Anton Geerlings. She simplifies her subjects, which always remain recognizable, creating a tension between reality and imagination. The artist lived in France for quite some time until she returned to the Netherlands in 1988.


Monica Dael | Female torso, stone, 16.0 cm, gesigneerd op achterkant met monogram

Monica Dael

statue • sculptuur • for sale

Female torso

Monica Dael | Seated nude, alabaster, 14.0 cm, signed on the bottom with monogram

Monica Dael

statue • sculptuur • for sale

Seated nude


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