Bust of President John F. Kennedy, 1964. Bronzed resin on marble base. Signed BERKS near truncation, with stated 1964 copyright. Negligible handling wear.
Following Kennedy's assassination, noted American sculptor Robert Berks wanted to memorialize his passing and fashioned a half life size bust in his honor. The Kennedy family liked the sculpture, which led to a commission for a larger work for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
Berks said he tried to capture the many moods of Kennedy's personality using his distinctive textured style. As a description in the JFK Presidential Library and Museum puts it: "The facets of Berks's broken surfaces create movement, so that each viewpoint evokes a different aspect of the subject's personality." Berks also made smaller versions of the bust, and licensed this copy for sale to the public. Examples $500-1000+ elsewhere on the Internet.
