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Bronze statue by the Rotterdam sculptor Anthon Hoornweg (1948). The statue is 22 x 16 x 23 cm. The bronze statue is brown patinated and is signed and dated (1987) on the side. The numbering 18/20 is on the back of the statue.
Hoornweg is best known (among others at the Smelik and Stokking galleries) for his bronze bull heads and owls. Realistic, but also mythological, half human, half Taurus. In this case, an Egyptian mummified parakeet and a woman's body. Hoornweg has made a bronze statue of a Taurus that is given as a prize at the Berlin film prize "the Prix Europe". In 2022, Bratt Pit won the prize. The prize has existed since 1999. Each statue is unique.
Today the sculptor makes so-called "Orientals". Relief sculptures of buildings from the Roman Empire and the Middle East.