Lot 13
  • 13

William Zorach

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • William Zorach
  • Head of a Boy (Tessim)
  • inscribed Zorach and dated 1925 on the back

  • granite, on a 6 1/2  in. black marble base
  • Height: 16 1/2 in.
  • 42 cm.

Provenance

Private collection, New York, circa 1950

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler, From the Studio:  Selections of American Sculpture, 1811-1941, April 26-June 6, 1986, p. 62, illustrated
New York, Zabriskie Gallery, William Zorach:  A Decade, 1917-1927, 1985-1986
New York, Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, Partners in Modernism:  The Art of Marguerite and WIlliam Zorach, April 11-May 25, 2007, p. 16, illustrated in color
New York, Spanierman Galleries, Maine:  An Artist's Retreat, May 12-June 11, 2011

Literature

Paul S. Wingert, The Sculpture of William Zorach, 1938, p. 60 (as Head of a Boy and dated 1924 [sic])
William Zorach, Art is My Life, 1967, p. 54
Roberta Tarbell, Catalogue Raisonne of William Zorach's Carved Sculpture, Ph.D. dissertation, I, p. 82, fig. 31; II, p. 475, no. 121 (as Head of Tessim, 1924 [sic])

Condition

in good condition; head is loose on base
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