Sculptor Karin Jonzen was born in London to Swedish parents, and was educated at prestigious art academies including the Slade School of Fine Art and the Swedish Royal Academy.


While over the course of the twentieth century sculpture started to veer towards abstraction, Jonzen remained loyal to and continued to develop her figurative style and her preferred subject of the human body.


Characterised by their tactile and, as often noted by the artist herself, their 'natural' appearance, Jonzen's works portray an incredible sensitivity to and understanding of the human form. Jonzen was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1939 (according to a plaque on another version of Resting Youth, the p...