coffee table, slate top, by the Belgian sculptor Jules Dewaele, better known as PIA MANU.
Price: 18000 €
Coffee table, slate top, tin lis relief, métal base.
Unique piece by the Belgian sculptor Jules Dewaele, better known as PIA MANU.
As a great collector of fossils and trilobites, Pia Manu takes a fossil tin form that he superimposes on the table top in combination with slate mosaics.
The base of the table is made of oxidated metal, Pia Manu treatened metals with an oxidation process to give the metal a unique texture and patina.
Signed Pia Manu on the top.
Acquired directly from the artist in 1983 by the previous owner. Representative of the Flemish Brutalists. He models or sculpts primitive forms with materials of powerful texture or anti-poetic (as he calls them) using concrete, fossils, metals, glass, earth and slate.
Dimensions H 30 x L 160 x D 60cm.