Lot 109 : WILLIAM ZORACH 1887-1966
Auction Location: United States of America - 2006
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Description:
PROPERTY FROM THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK
MOTHER AND CHILD
measurements
height: 65 in.
alternate measurements
(165.1 cm)
Spanish florida rose marble
Executed during 1927-1930 in Georgetown, Maine.
PROVENANCE
The artist
The Downtown Gallery, New York
Gift to the present owners ,1952 (courtesy of the Fletcher Fund)
EXHIBITED
New York, The Downtown Gallery, William Zorach, January-February 1931, no. 1, illustrated (detail)
Chicago, Ilinois, Art Institute of Chicago, American Paintings and Sculpture, 44th Annual Exhibition, October-December 1931, no. 280, illustrated
Chicago, Ilinois, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June-November 1934, no. 852
Cleveland, Ohio, Museum of Fine Arts, Sculpture of our Time, 1937
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in our Time, 1939, no. 288, illustrated
New York, Art Students League, William Zorach, November 1950, no. 5
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Zorach, October-November 1959, pp. 23, 110, illustrated pl. 46, 47
New York, New York Shakespeare Festival, March 1971-February 1973
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978-79, 1980-85 (on view)
LITERATURE
William Zorach, Art is My Life: The Autobiography of William Zorach, New York, 1967, pp. 83-87, illustrated p. 83 and on the cover
NOTE
William Zorach, in his autobiography Art is My Life, writes of the present work, "I feel Mother and Child is my finest piece of sculpture."
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