Obj. ID: 28398
Modern Jewish Art  Sidur, Contrabass player

The sculpture represents a playing jazz-musician with his shoulders raised up and with his chin leaning against the contrabass. The left hand of the musician is raised to the upper part of the finger-board while the right one is put on its middle part. The simplified forms of the sculpture are rather geometrical than natural and rather graphical than plastic. The bent body of the musician is screened by the large flat body of the instrument. A line of the finger-board cuts the contrabass diagonally. By its sides two openings and two filled pieces are placed slantwise. A horizontal bar with a small round opening in it, put upon the instrument represents the shoulders and the head. The hands rectangular in their cross-section are bent at right angles.