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Persephone
1999 · Pink alabaster with granite base
25 in. × 10 in. × 9 1/2 in. (63.5 × 25.4 × 24.1 cm)
Weight 2002.401a: 133 lb. (60.3 kg)
Weight 2002.401b: 62.8 lb. (28.5 kg)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Anita Huffington was an American sculptor who worked primarily in stone and bronze, creating abstracted representations of the female torso. Her carved and cast forms emphasize volumetric mass and surface texture, distilling the body to its essential sculptural elements. Working across the latter half of the twentieth century, Huffington pursued a formal vocabulary rooted in modernist reduction while maintaining an implicit figural anchor.
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