Don't want to appear to shill, or paint you as a shill, just trying to correct some information here so we don't seem disorganised;
The Dahmer victim sculpture, "Arch of Hysteria", was created by Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010, in 1993. It may have been inspired by a Dahmer victim (the piece was created during Dahmer's spree, so maybe he was inspired by her work?) but she claimed that the inspiration was hysterical patients' movements at a hospital (Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris).
I can't find much information about the sale of the piece (only that the National Gallery of Canada bought it in 2005), or when Podesta acquired it. I'd say with a degree of certainty that it wasn't a commissioned piece.
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ArthurChance ago
Don't want to appear to shill, or paint you as a shill, just trying to correct some information here so we don't seem disorganised;
The Dahmer victim sculpture, "Arch of Hysteria", was created by Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010, in 1993. It may have been inspired by a Dahmer victim (the piece was created during Dahmer's spree, so maybe he was inspired by her work?) but she claimed that the inspiration was hysterical patients' movements at a hospital (Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris).
I can't find much information about the sale of the piece (only that the National Gallery of Canada bought it in 2005), or when Podesta acquired it. I'd say with a degree of certainty that it wasn't a commissioned piece.
*Edited to add source link: https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=100798 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artworks_by_Louise_Bourgeois
lossau ago
Ok, then why there is no head?
ArthurChance ago
No idea, sorry, I'm just digging around. I don't think she'd have seen the crime scene shots of the Dahmer victims, though.