Bronze with polished gold patina, 1922. 190 mm; 7 1/2 inches (height, excluding base). With the artist's incised initials, lower verso.
Provenance: Private collection, Baltimore.
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.
