Beverly Hills : City to Buy Bronze Statue
The City Council appropriated $72,760 to buy a Charles Arnoldi statue for the expanded Beverly Hills Civic Center.
Shaped like a big “O,” the statue, a nine-foot-high 1,400-pound bronze titled “Home,” will be displayed south of the city’s newly renovated library, at the corner of Rexford Drive and Burton Way.
“The center part is totally open and it has big round walls and it feels very inviting, and it even feels a bit womb-like,” said Fred Hoffman, whose Santa Monica gallery sold the piece to the city.
Unlike the George Herms’ “Moon Dial” statue, a loan that aroused a storm of controversy when it was displayed in a city park along Santa Monica Boulevard, the purchase of Arnoldi’s work was approved by the city’s Fine Arts Committee and the City Council, as well as the architects who designed the Civic Center.
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