Pétangue (2020) Skulptur von Erno Toth

Story about the sculpture:
A few years ago, we spent our vacation in the iconic French town of Saint Tropez.
I have had a particularly close relationship with him since my youth, thanks to the great film A God created woman by Roger Vadim, which launched the film career of the legendary Brigitte Bardot. This relationship of mine to the town was further strengthened by the films The Gendarme of Sait Tropez. Humorous stories have always been closest to my nature.

As I was walking through the town, reliving the scenes from the Gendarmes, I saw a group of elderly gentlemen in the park who were playing petanque and having a good time. It reminded me of an almost two-minute humorous skit from the movie The Gendarmes of Sait Tropez, in which Louis de Funes, Jean Lefebre, Michel Galabru and Christian Marin excelled.

I couldn't resist the temptation and asked the gentlemen if I could play petanque with them. They agreed with a smile and then we fooled around like little kids for over two hours.
It was a great vacation experience for me, and I promised my teammates that I would immortalize these moments of our fun in one of my works.
In the end, there were several of them on canvas, but this was the only one created in the form of a bronze sculpture.



Important information:
Even if I state that there are 3-5 copies of a specific sculpture, each of them is actually an original. The technique of my work is atypical and I have to model every single piece of the same sculpture again and create a mold into which the bronze is then poured. Despite over 40 years of experience, even I cannot model any of the other variations of the same motif completely identically. There are minor differences between them, even though in principle it is the same work.
Sometimes it can happen that the work shown in the photo has already been sold in the meantime, and in the case of another order, I have to model this motif again from the beginning and have it cast into a new form. In this case, the time for sending the work is around 3 weeks, and it must be taken into account that this sculpture will differ in a few small details from the depicted work.
But the advantage is that, for the above reasons, the purchased work is unique, and a completely identical work can simply never exist.

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