This is a superb original signed painted resin sculpture by internationally acclaimed Pop artist GEORGE SEGAL (American, 1924-2000), dated 1980.

This rare original sculpture is entitled "Girl for the Whitney Museum" and is signed by the artist on the inside base "G. Segal" and dated "80". It is also numbered "11/75". It measures 19" x 9" x 7 ½". It is in good condition aside from a slight hairline crack on the left side center and to the lower left corner of the base. Authenticity is GUARANTEED. Shipping is $95.00 within the US only. Please view my eBay store for additional museum quality fine art and collectibles.

George Segal was born in 1924 in New York City. He grew up and lived in New Jersey, where he and his wife, Helen, owned a farm that became an outpost of the New York art world, serving as the set of a Robert Frank film and as the site of the first Fluxus Happening. In 1961, Segal began working with live models -- including himself -- to create the plaster-cast figurative sculptures for which he became best known. In 1962, he was included in the seminal exhibition, "New Realism," at the Sidney Janis in 1962. He had retrospectives at the Walker Center for the Arts, Minneapolis (1978) and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1997), and exhibited widely around the world. In 1991, he created Depression Breadline at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C, and in 1999, he received the prestigious National Medal of the Arts. Segal's figures had minimal color and detail, which gave them a ghostly, melancholic appearance. In larger works, one or more figures were placed in anonymous, typically urban environments such as a street corner, bus, or diner. In contrast to the figures, the environments were built using found objects. An example of this work is the sculpture, Chance Meeting, which sold in 2001 for $666,000. It was one of his highest selling works. The work was created in 1989 and was cast in bronze.