BEFORE THE BALL
BRONZE SCULPTURE
13 x 15 x 6 INCHES
$5,500.00
The artist uses motives of the Cinderella fairy tale, a girl who lost her crystal shoe at the ball and the prince who fell in love with her. We discover here, as well, an interest to symbolism and allegory, particularly found in the texts of medieval alchemy. Alchemists tried to transform base metals into gold. But, in fact, the transformation of a poor girl into a fine princess is also a kind of alchemical manipulation, “transmutation” of “cinders” into gold.
