Mother Mourning Son 1 (maquette)  

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Name: Mother Mourning Son 1 (maquette)
Medium: Plaster
Date Made: 1954
Dimensions: 052*021*013
Cast:
Gassed
Kria
Mourning Mother with Dead Son
Gassed
Kria
Martyrs, The

During his artistic training in Europe Herman Wald was directed  to seek the primordial element of the human figure. In South Africa he was surrounded by the essence of what he had sought: the paradigm of womanhood and motherhood as part of the African life force depicted here in her hieratic grandeur.

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