Martien de Kler - without title

Provenance is inheritance; Martien de Kler was the brother of the owner's former partner. No further information available. Exact year is unknown, and period is a guess; Martien de Kler lived from 1943 to 2016, and may therefore have made this work in his earlier years (but see below). The metal frame is nailed to wooden blocks at the back.
About Martien de Kler: attended the School of the Arts in Arnhem and started as a house painter. In the first period of his life as a visual artist, he mainly created pop art and was inspired by, among others, Andy Warhol and Allen Jones. Political themes such as the Cold War and the Vietnam War then play a role in his works. This is followed by a period of rotating, usually constricted figures and torsos - of which this is an example.