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WILLIAM ZORACH | CHILD WITH CAT

Auction Closed

September 17, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

WILLIAM ZORACH

1887 - 1966

CHILD WITH CAT


inscribed ZORACH (along the base)

polished bronze

height: 18 inches (45.7 cm)

The artist

Private collection, New York (acquired from the above)

By descent to the present owner

John H. Bauer, William Zorach, New York, 1959, no. 23, pl. 28, illustration of another example

Bobbie Tarbell, Catalogue Raisonné of William Zorach's Carved Sculpture, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1976, pp. 249-253

Child with Cat was cast in an edition of at least eight and depicts Zorach's daughter Dahlov embracing one of the family's cats.