Lot number 3335 - Auction 155
'DER SÜNDENFALL' (EVA MIT SCHLANGE UND APFEL)

JOSEF JOSEPHU 1889 Vienna - 1970 New York 'THE FALL' (EVA WITH SNAKE AND APPLE) Bronze, brown patina, on round plinth. Total height 36 cm, width 13.5 cm, depth 13 cm, weight approx. 5 kg. Signed 'Joseph Josephu' on the plinth, 'Argentor Vienna' on the side. Symbolic representation of Eve as a young girl. The snake winds itself around Eve and holds the apple in its mouth as the central attribute of the biblical Fall of Man. Partial loss of patina and bumped.