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J O H N G R O S S
VENUS
John
Gross' sculpture "Venus" is based on the famous Upper Paleolithic
sculpture found in 1922 in the
Rideaux cave of Lespugue (Haute-Garonne)
in the foothills of the Pyrenees
in France. The original "Venus of Lespugue" is carved of
mammoth ivory, is 47mm or 6 inches tall, and is dated to c. 25,000 years
B.C. It (shown below) resides in
the
Museé des
Antiquités Nationales, in Paris.
Gross, a US artist,
created the sculpture presented here (and a number somewhat similar to
this one) in 1992 as a welded steel construction. The piece is
20.3 inches in height, and is number
IX
/
∞
(infinity).
Each of the
seven facet panels of the base contains words and symbols. The panel
facing front in the above image contains "©,"' then "John," then
"Gross," then "BO" (for Boulder), then
"CO" (for Colorado), then "USA", then "IX
/
∞",
then "1992".
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