This sculpture came from the collection of the famous US film director Joseph Losey. 

He spent the latter years of his life living in Europe, London mostly.

He was an avid art collector and this sculpture has a wonderful feel to it.

Sculpture is 32.5cm / 45 cm with the base.

Born in 1929 in Ixelles, André Eijberg began working at the age of fourteen in a brewery and in the nurseries of the Château de Cro in Roeulx, then as a longshoreman for the American army. Around the age of 16, he worked in the Boch Brothers earthenware factory in La Louvière. This practice led him to train as a ceramist-faience maker at the Institute of Arts and Crafts of La Louvière where he received the master's prize in 1949. He then considered the profession of ceramist through assembly line work which allowed him to acquire practice, techniques and mastery of the clay. Although he developed the pleasure of the material in 1959 by creating ceramic sculptures, it was not until 1966 that he began cutting stone and working with bronze. Very quickly, in 1967, he won his first prize, the Louis Schmidt sculpture prize, which introduced this part of his work to the public. From his workshop, located in La Hulpe, Eijberg's work oscillates between the financial necessity of an artisanal practice and the pleasure of creation to find a balance.

Granite, Carrara marble, ebony, rosewood and even bronze are all noble materials chosen and worked by the artist in a very intimate relationship with the material. Drawing from it the very essence of his subject to achieve a pure form resonates like a leitmotif in his work and brings him closer to Constantin Brâncuşi (1876-1957). Like Michel Smolders (1929-2015), whom he admired, André Eijberg draws his forms from the repertoire of nature and human figures. His search for abstraction brings him closer to the work of Henry Moore but the majority of André Eijberg's works remain attached to a very present figuration, certainly sometimes pushed to its limits.