The direct-carving or taille directe marble sculptor Alexander Sokolov (born 1955) has spent about half his life in Spain which has led to the distribution of his more central continental style within Iberia. The sculptor studied and lived in the studios of Miklos Dallos at his outset in Paris in the mid-1970s. Sokolov was seen by Marrodán as emanating from the French School of sculpture and there is a chain of teaching influence through Dallos and Marcel Gimond back to Bourdelle . Sokolov who in French manner elicits response within the bare subject of the torso and the Nude , as does Dallos, also has, like Gimond, a strength for portraiture.

Reference

• Mario Ángel Marrodán, Sokolov: esculturas, La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca, 1993