A Life Size Marble by Salvatore Albano "Girl Sewing"

Provenance: Private Collection Paris

Each figure is painted and gilded, and each resting on painted and polychromed plinths

John Warrington Wood English, 1839-1886 The gentleman wearing a moustache and sideburns Signed on verso of truncated shoulders J.Warrington Wood, Sculpt.Rome 1874

Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. American, 1902-1984 “Female Nude” Bronze Signed and dated 1969 on base Height 64 ½ in. Width 19 in. The life size figure modeled as if walking with a drape held in her hand trailing behind is inscribed on the base of the sculpture “Victor Bergeron, 1969.” This original bronze sculpture was commissioned by Rudolph Pabst and his wife.. Rudolph Pabst is the beer baron for the label Pabst Blue Ribbon...

This enchanting museum quality Carrara marble group is the work of Edward Russell Thaxter (born Yarmouth, ME 1857-died Naples, Italy 1881). The sculpture depicts a young girl sternly scolds her cat, who has just attacked a bird's nest. She clutches the cat to her chest and looks at it disapprovingly, while waving her hand in discipline. Meanwhile, a dead bird lies at her feet and feathers hang limply from the cat’s mouth. This scene is a prelude to the responsibilities of motherhood: the young girl who is now reprimanding her cat will have to ensure that her own children are well behaved in the future. The sculpture rests on a dark green serpentine marble pedestal. Although Edward Thaxter's life was short, he excelled in creating detailed neoclassical sculpture. Signed: E. R. Thaxter Titled: Reproof Circa 1878-1880 Measures: Height with pedestal 76" (193 cm) Height of sculpture 40" (101 cm) Another example of this marble figure is in the Smithsonian National Museum in Washington DC. Artist biography: Edward Russell Thaxter was only twenty-four years old when he died, but in his brief career as a sculptor he garnered praise for his work and was deemed an artist with a promising future. Born in Yarmouth, Maine, he is believed to have chosen to study sculpture after seeing the work of John Rogers. At the age of sixteen, Thaxter moved to Boston and studied with the portrait sculptor John D. Perry. In 1878 Thaxter left for Florence, Italy, where he took a studio and began to create the neoclassical works that won him critical attention. In 1881 he contracted typhoid fever, which left him in a weakened condition, and within the year the young sculptor died in Naples. Thaxter's untimely death was noted with genuine regret in the American press. The critic James Jackson...

Pretty alabaster sculpture of a young man removing a thorn from his foot. Theme taken up many times in the sculpture, the oldest known example of the boy with thorn...

An exceptional and decorative and handsome 19th century Italian white Carrara marble statue. This spectacular marble fragment of a leg and feet, likely a classical figure donning a f...

A most charming and wonderfully executed Italian 19th century white Carrara marble statue of a young girl, titled BUONANOTTE. The statue is raised by a circular base with a fine paver like design and the inscription BUONANOTTE at the front meaning good night in Italian. The lovely young girl is wearing her night robe...