Drunkard

The lamp is the work of Ivo Kerdić (1881 – 1953), leading Croatian sculptor and medal maker, very active between the wars. He also dealt in the applied arts, and a large number of his works got into the holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. This lamp was made just before it was shown at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925 where it was part of the Croatian section in the pavilion of the Kingdom of the SCS. The lamp of cast bronze is formed sculpturally in the spirit of the interwar aesthetics and reflects Kerdić’s sculpture style in that it shows his interest in shaping the human figure and in a summary treatment of the surface.