Marble Sculpture ‘Head of Salome’ by Boris Lovet-Lorski

This bust by Lovet-Lorski produced this bust as a variation of his 1926 Salome sculpture that he produced one year earlier and exhibited at Grand Central Galleries in New York. The style of bob haircut which she dons is largely inspired by the ancient egyptian hairstyles and headdresses found on the artifacts of King Tut’s tomb in 1922. Such bobs became fashionable on both real life women and egyptian themed fashion illustrations. Such simplification of hair and headdresses can be found on egyptian canopic jars, whereby the scale of the object demanded simplicity. The same hairstyle was found on Judith I, Gustav Klimt’s controversial painting of Salome painted in in 1901.