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Semilla
Image provided by vendor - not for public use
Image provided by vendor - not for public use

Semilla

Artist Gerda Gruber (Austrian and Mexican, born 1940)
Date2014
MediumWood
DimensionsOverall: 13 × 46 1/16 × 10 1/4 inches (33 × 117 × 26 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund
Object number2025.42.1
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a horizontally oriented wood sculpture in an oval shape with a concave indentation in the top, right hand side of the piece. The wood is a chestnut color, with natural markings throughout. The piece makes contact with the surface it rests on only toward the middle; the left and right sides of the piece curve upward as the piece is an oval shape.Provenance

The artist, 2014;

Purchased from the artist by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.

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