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14-JUL-2006

Gustav Vigeland - "Eternity" (?) .jpg

Though this sculpture is not formally named "Eternity", the circle is associated with that idea in art, due to the circle having no end. The man and woman are locked together in a tumbling, rotating movement. This sculpture done between 1926-1933 reminds me of Matisse's painting of "The Dance" done for Dr. Albert Barnes' home in Merion, PA, (now a museum) in 1930-31, as well as an earlier exploration of that theme that Matisse did for the Russian collector Sergei Shchukin in 1909-1910. Both Vigeland and Matisse worked with the figures interlocked in a circular motion.

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