Singing Man

Mediums: bronze.
Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York (the USA).

Small, slightly more than half a meter high, the statue is made in the emotional manner characteristic of the mature period of the master’s work. A man sitting in a free-pose sings selflessly – this is visible from his face inspired with a song; his eyes are closed. The viewer immediately understands – the melody is slow, lyrical, most likely sad, and the performer is a poor person. The sculpture was purchased by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; its plaster original is in the Ernst Barlach House Museum in Hamburg.