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Contemporaries called him eccentric; later generations saw something else, an early and radical study of what a human face can carry: fear, concentration, pain, the grimace that surfaces when self-control gives way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis character head is modelled after \u003cem\u003eThe Incompetent Bassoonist\u003c\/em\u003e, the face drawn tight between strain and concentration, lips pressed and puckered. It is cast by the \u003cem\u003ecire perdue\u003c\/em\u003e (lost-wax) method and finished with a dark brown patina on a black marble base. 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