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Gerstein, Noemí
(b Buenos Aires, 10 Nov 1908; d Buenos Aires, 30 Nov 1993). Argentine sculptor. She began her studies in 1934 under the Argentine sculptor Alfredo Bigatti (1898–1964), and in 1950–51 she studied in Paris under Ossip Zadkine with a French government grant. After working in a conventional figurative style she gradually assimilated the language of the avant-garde, for example in an extraordinary series of Maternities (1952–6; Mother and Son, version, iron and bronze, h. 350 mm, 1953), in which forms are defined by rhythmic relationships between hollows and volumes. In 1953 she won first prize in the international section of a London-based competition for a monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner, representing the theme with an abstract work (version, steel and bronze, 450 mm, 1953; Buenos Aires, Acad. N. B.A.). This was followed by an expressive symbolic marble carving entitled The Scream (1956; Buenos Aires, Mus. N. B.A.).
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