What is a Maquette?
Maquette is the term used for a scale model of a sculpture which is not finished yet. It serves as a rough draft so that the artist can test ideas about the sculpture without spending the effort and cost to make the full-size sculpture.
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Jockum Nordström
Children's drawing #6, 2013
Sculpture / Object
Maquette
EUR 1,700
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