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Lot 12
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Elie Nadelman 1882 - 1946

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Elie Nadelman
  • Man With Top Hat
  • inscribed E.N. and numbered 3/6 on the lower right edge; also stamped with the conjoined initials of the Modern Art Foundry MA, the symbol of the Art Founders Guild and dated 1981 on the bronze base
  • bronze
  • height: 27 1/2 inches (69.9 cm) on a 5 inch base (12.7 cm)
  • The present work was conceived circa 1926 and cast from the galvano plastique in 1980-81 as an authorized edition of 6.

Provenance

Jan and Joyce Nadelman (son and daughter-in-law of the artist) 
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Barbara Haskell, Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life, New York, 2003, pp. 157, 159, illustration of another example fig. 189, p. 166 
Lincoln Kirstein, Elie Nadelman, New York, 1973, no. 71, p. 294 (reference to the galvano plastique)

Condition

Very good condition. Losses in the base, most noticeably in the back left corner.
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