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CHAIM GROSS | UNICYCLIST

Auction Closed

November 19, 04:22 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

CHAIM GROSS

1904 - 1991

UNICYCLIST


inscribed CHAIM GROSS with the artist's device (on the base); also inscribed BEDI-MAKKY FDRY. N.Y. (along the base)

bronze with brown patina

height: 90 inches (228.6 cm)

Cast in 1975.

The artist

Estate of the above

Forum Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2007

The present work highlights Chaim Gross' lifelong interest in the circus, which was one of the few forms of entertainment available to him as a child growing up in the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe. Unicyclist was cast in an edition of six.