Standing Figure
Standing Figure
Alan "Bud" Lewin
American, 1908 - 2005
Bronze
19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm)
Alan "Bud" Lewin (1908–2005)
Alan "Bud" Lewin was a Missouri sculptor who worked primarily in bronze, based in St. Louis for much of his career. He is best known for a body of abstracted figurative sculpture — attenuated, gesturally simplified human forms, often set on stone or travertine plinths — that reflects the mid-century era's broader move toward reductive, expressive figuration. Lewin worked largely outside the gallery-and-museum circuit, producing sculpture for private and regional collectors rather than building a public exhibition record, and his pieces remain relatively scarce on the market today. Signed simply "Lewin," his work continues to surface in St. Louis-area estates and private collections, valued for its quiet modernist economy of form.
Standing Figure
A bronze sculpture by Alan "Bud" Lewin, standing 19¼ inches tall on a dark stone base. The work exemplifies Lewin's reductive treatment of the human form: a single, elongated figure whose surface is faceted and softly torsioned, abstracting anatomy into a rising, vertical rhythm rather than literal likeness. The effect is more gesture than portrait — a sense of quiet, upward movement caught mid-motion. The bronze's dark, warm patina sits in handsome contrast against the pale base, giving the piece a grounded, sculptural presence suited to a desk, console, or gallery pedestal.
Alan "Bud" Lewin was a Missouri sculptor who worked primarily in bronze, based in St. Louis for much of his career. He is best known for a body of abstracted figurative sculpture — attenuated, gesturally simplified human forms, often set on stone or travertine plinths — that reflects the mid-century era's broader move toward reductive, expressive figuration. Lewin worked largely outside the gallery-and-museum circuit, producing sculpture for private and regional collectors rather than building a public exhibition record, and his pieces remain relatively scarce on the market today. Signed simply "Lewin," his work continues to surface in St. Louis-area estates and private collections, valued for its quiet modernist economy of form.
Standing Figure
A bronze sculpture by Alan "Bud" Lewin, standing 19¼ inches tall on a dark stone base. The work exemplifies Lewin's reductive treatment of the human form: a single, elongated figure whose surface is faceted and softly torsioned, abstracting anatomy into a rising, vertical rhythm rather than literal likeness. The effect is more gesture than portrait — a sense of quiet, upward movement caught mid-motion. The bronze's dark, warm patina sits in handsome contrast against the pale base, giving the piece a grounded, sculptural presence suited to a desk, console, or gallery pedestal.
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