The Devil with Claws

Germaine Richier · 1952

You're looking at The Devil with Claws — a sculpture by the French artist Germaine Richier, nineteen fifty-two. Cast in bronze, almost always by the lost wax method, in which the model is destroyed to release the metal.

Medium Bronze on stone base · Dimensions 34 1/2 x 37 1/4 x 24 3/4" (87.5 x 94.5 x 62.9 cm) on stone base 31 x 33 5/8 x 19 3/8" (78.7 x 85.3 x 49.2 cm) · Credit Wildenstein Foundation Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 401: Guano-Round

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Tiari, The Horse, The Impossible, III, Bird-Head (Oiseau-tête), Jeannette (V), Spoon Woman