Lot 119 : William Zorach (1887-1968)
Auction Location: United States of America - 2005
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Artist or Maker:
William Zorach (1887-1968)
Title:
'Nova Vita'
Description:
'Nova Vita'
inscribed 'Zorach' and '2/6' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
79 1/2 in. (201.9 cm.)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist.
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., New York.
Christie's, New York, 4 December 1987, lot 195.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Notes:
"Zorach's art is based on a dialectic between naturalism, sources in art, his emotional connection with the content of his art, and his metaphysical orientation. Zorach, like most of the early twentieth-century avant-garde sculptors, not only learned from Asian and African sources directly but also indirectly through European modernists, especially Brancusi, whose works were very influential in America. Brancusi combined in his art the aesthetics basic to orientalism, primitivism, formalism, folk art, and direct carving, goals the American sculptors shared." (R.K. Tarbell, "Primitivism, Folk Art, and the Exotic," in I.S. Fort, The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, California, 1995, p. 117)
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