Material: Resin, hand painted
Height: 14 cm
Monkey with Skull (1892-93)
Based on the original sculpture by Wolfgang Hugo Rheinhold (1853 - 1900)
The small bronze sculpture "Monkey with skull" attracted a great deal of attention at the Berlin Art Exhibition in 1893. It was Rheinhold's first sculpture as a professional sculptor and was an immediate commercial success. The monkey is sitting on english naturalist Charles Darwin's books "On the Origin of species" (1859), holding a skull in his hand.
