Man in the Open Air

Elie Nadelman · c. 1915

This one's called Man in the Open Air — a sculpture by Elie Nadelman, around nineteen fifteen. Cast in bronze, almost always by the lost wax method, in which the model is destroyed to release the metal.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 54 1/2" (138.4 cm) high, 11 3/4 x 21 1/2" (29.9 x 54.6 cm) at base · Credit Gift of William S. Paley (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 500: Head, Tiari

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Torso, Development of a Bottle in Space, Spoon Woman, Reclining Nude with Guitar, Bird-Head (Oiseau-tête), Caryatid

More by Elie Nadelman here: Woman at the Piano