100% AUTHENTIC WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY DAUM VIOLET GLASS SCULPTURE ADAM KADMON WITH BASE THOMAS GLEB LIMITED EDITION 136/150 FROSTED VIOLET COLOR SCULPTURE - ADAM LIMITED EDITION 136/150 NEW COLLECTORS ITEM PLEASE SEE PICTURES FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS BOX/ ORIGINAL PACKAGING INCLUDED as shown APRX : 6.5 " X 4.75" X 2" BASE APRX : 3.5 " X 4.25" X 1.25" Mysterious by its subject and its forms, the statue of Gleb attracts, intrigues and opens the way to various speculations. It represents Adam Kadmon, the primitive man, according to the Jewish tradition transmitted by the Kabbalah. Let us recall the passage from Genesis which evokes the creation of man in the Bible, in chapter I, 27: "God created man in his image; He created him in the image of God and created them male and female. " In Hebrew, a consonantal language, there exists a plurality of possible meanings according to whether one adds or subtracts a letter, and in the interpretation favored by the Kabbalah it is justified to read: "he created it male and female" Adam Kadmon would be Therefore, this primordial, androgynous being, which is found elsewhere, in many philosophical, mythological and religious narratives that make the One the origin of all things. It is also called "the heavenly Adam" as opposed to the "earthly Adam" that we all know. Thomas Gleb gave his statuette evocative lines of an evolving human body with an upright phallus pointing to a circular orifice, a possible symbol of the female sex or of a head that is still absent. The lower limbs are already well-shaped from the front as well as the thorax, from the back. On the other hand the upper body is only suggested. The choice of crouching position refers to Egyptian statuary. This quasi-sacred work testifies to the artist's questions about the feminine and the masculine, questioning that can be found in later works like "Signe androgyne", a kind of primitivist idol conceived in 1970 for Daum.