Lazarus
Bronze
1959
This is the artist’s first major bronze to
be worked in plaster. The medium allowed Baskin the
rough surface effects. The figure is split into three
sections, the bottom rough and earthy, the middle
a more human form under the wrappings and the head
a new and polished emerging dome. This pivotal sculpture
was the prelude to his later wrapped figures. Although
upright, the figure is lifeless.
