Gudmar Olovson, sculpture. Signed. Numbered. Foundry mark. Bronze, total height 67 cm, length 46 cm.
"L'élan" (The Stride). Signed Gudmar. Numbered 1/10. Foundry mark A Valsuani cire perdue. Bronze, dark/brown patina. Height 62 cm (including stone base 67 cm), length 46 cm, width 22 cm. The motif conceived 1969.
Insignificant surface dirt, a couple of minor stains and scratchmarks. Some chip at the stone base. Overall good condition.
The sculpture “L'élan in which certain patterns in modern sculpture, like Degas’s step, or the torso ensconced frontally in the tradition of Rodin or Wlérick, are rethought by Gudmar Olovson through an energy that is all his own. A Scandinavian’s energy, but a fighter’s too.
Immersed in her time, indissociable from her space, the woman moves forward, motivated by her momentum alone, with an impetuous step, just before making a leap. The profiles unite with the outlines of the planes, in a series of rhythms that accentuate the power of the movement. It is a kind of vigorous hymn, chanted like a plastic paean.