This evocative bronze sculpture, likely dating from the early to mid-20th century, bears the hallmarks of post-war European expressionism and shows affinities with the CoBrA movement in its raw materiality and totemic presence. Standing on a travertine base, the figure evokes a mythic or animal-like form—simultaneously archaic and modern, grotesque and endearing.

The heavily textured surface, achieved through a vigorous modeling technique and possibly lost-wax casting, conveys a sense of immediacy and primal force. With its ambiguous anatomy, tapering limbs, and roughly hewn body, the work invites associations with tribal sculpture, ancient reliquaries, or ritualistic effigies, filtered through a distinctly 20th-century lens.

The sculpture recalls the spirit of artists such as Karel Appel, Lucebert, or Pierre Alechinsky, whose works channeled the unconscious and embraced childlike spontaneity and raw expression. At the same time, its weight and formal tension also resonate with contemporaries like Lynn Chadwick or Germaine Richier, whose figures navigated the post-war anxiety of form and identity.

This piece exemplifies a moment in European sculpture when figuration was pushed to the edge of abstraction, capturing the visceral, psychological terrain of a world rebuilding itself—both materially and spiritually.