Hera2.0025_Nakian

Hera2.0025_Nakian

Nakian.org
ogcma s.v. "Hera"
Classical Sources:

Reuben Nakian, "Study for Juno in the Judgment of Paris", ca. 1964, abstract expressionist bronze miniature sculpture, 8.5 x 6.5 x 5.5", private collections, Nakian Atelier no. 3.268.
Compare to plaster full-size displayed 1966 at New York's Egan Gallery: Hera2.0024_Nakian.

"[Nakian in 1966] pursued this elusive theme into the 'sixties and created a group of four huge free-standing abstract figures (Paris, Venus, Juno, Minerva) poised in a fatalistic yet bawdy ritual, waiting for the apple of discord to be awarded and the Trojan War to start. The group is one of his masterpieces." (F. O'Hara (1966), Nakian (Doubleday), p. 16)

Bronze abstract sculpture resembling a stylized human figure or a natural, eroded form with a bridge-like element

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.