Berrocal Sculptures
In the late 70s my dad & step-mom came back from a trip to Europe with a wonderful puzzle sculpture by Miguel Berrocal called “Mini Cristina”. A fist-sized chunk of nickel-plated brass on a short stand, it came apart into 23 pieces which took me most of an hour to reassemble. I loved the thing, and took it apart every time I visited them for many years.
As an adult I always wanted to own a Berrocal, but I was poor, and even when later I wasn’t I remained convinced that owning one would be too much of an extravagance. Finally in the spring of 2021 I realized this wasn’t true, and purchased an edition of Berrocal’s Goliath sculpture (go big or go home I guess). A few years later, in a fit of retail therapy, I bought a very nice Mini Cristina from a French eBay seller to round out my collection.