Two-Tone Gray Bust Sculpture

A commanding presence at nearly thirty-two inches tall, this bust sculpture by John Richard layers resin, stone, and marble into a composition of quiet authority, its two-tone gray palette shifting with the light in the manner of aged plaster or weathered limestone. The deliberately aged finish lends a patina of accumulated time, as though the piece had been unearthed from a grand European collection rather than newly commissioned. Broad in the shoulder at over twenty inches wide yet disciplined in its depth, the silhouette reads with the confident restraint of classical portraiture — wholly at home anchoring a console, a library shelf, or an architectural niche.