02/09/2026
“CONDOR” - Antonio Amorgasti, 1937
Few sculptors have attempted a condor in white Carrara marble. The challenge is considerable - feathers that are hard, tight, and rigidly symmetrical, wings that create openings demanding structural precision from a material that does not forgive error.
What makes this work remarkable is precisely how Amorgasti turned that constraint into an asset: light passes through the spaces beneath the wings, catching the marble’s white clarity in a way no closed form could achieve.
The sculpture was executed in 1937 by Marcel Amorgasti after his father Antonio’s design - a collaboration between two generations of a family who arrived in Antwerp from Pisa for the 1930 World Fair and never left.
Antonio had spent years working alongside Josuë Dupon, one of Antwerp’s foremost animal sculptors, and the lineage shows: a larger version of this condor in bronze, bearing Dupon’s signature, stands today at the Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum.
Dimensions: 47.5 x 41 x 24.5 cm
Material: Carrara white marble
Year: 1937
Available upon inquiry at Artimo Fine Art, Brussels. On display at until from September 18 to 20, 2026.