Woman at the River

A woman resting on two rocks with her metaphysic head grafted on a tubular neck. It’s possible to find a fusion of it without legs and arms. Venturoli states that this is one of the most prominent and powerful works by Crocetti: “The torsion of the upper body of this beautiful figure has not been put together by a series of abstract plastic fragments but in a resume of pieces of reality: standing with her feet apart, the dress held up by the hand and underneath that the columns of the tights and legs, characters of that body in their biggest truthful dimension –a gladiator bather- there are parts of a totality which are able to create a synthesis. Her powerful back is among the most beautiful of our sculpture, for its raising, its bending, its setting herself free from that bundle of flesh and muscles that looks like it was born directly into bronze itself, the soft crown of the vest tight around the middle. Her balancing, being a figure of considerable weight, over two rocks is admirable along with the contradiction of her “metaphysic” face