Carved wood, circa 1930. 280 mm; 11 inches (height). With the artist's incised signature on the base.
Provenance: Private collection, New York; Swann Auction Galleries, New York, June 4, 2015, sale 2386, lot 82; private collection, New York.
Born in Lithuania, Zorach (1887-1966) immigrated to Cleveland with his family at age four. He worked as both a sculptor and watercolorist at the vanguard of American modernism, after briefly studying in Paris in the early 1910s. While Zorach initially practiced painting, his interests in sculpture, which took root in 1917, soon eclipsed other media. By the 1930s, Zorach was regarded as one of America's premier sculptors and was honored with multiple commissions and exhibitions including shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Art Institute of Chicago.
