Sterling Silver Figurative Sculptures

For your consideration is a fantastic table sculpture of Toulouse Latrec by Israeli artist Frank Meisler. In excellent condition. This unique interacti...

Frank Meisler sculpture entitled "Toulouse Lautrec." This "open-door" piece allows the owner to view inside the jacket of the subject. With the doors closed, Lautrec stands, wearing a suit and a bowler. Inside the jacket are small sculptures of images that would be associated with the French Bohemian artist. A small plaque on the attached base reads " Toulouse Lautrec/ Frank Meisler Israel." Frank Meisler's "Toulouse Lautrec" opens his jacket to reveal an assortment of characters inside. The sculpture Is made from a casted metal and is finished with 925 sterling silver and gold. Current retail price on traditions website is $13,499. This piece was bought at H. Stern in 1993. About the artist from artist website: His sculptures in limited edition and individual works are often commissioned by Israel’s Prime Ministers, as well as the heads of state of other countries as presentation gifts for state occasions. In addition to one-man exhibitions and public sculptures in many parts of the world, Meisler’s work is on permanent view in galleries in Old Jaffa, Tel Aviv, The Caribbean , Moscow and Kiev. The artist has designed the interior of the first synagogue built in Moscow this century and sculptures on the site of Russia’s National War Memorial. His public sculptures have been erected in Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Miami, Santo Domingo, England, Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Poland. Frank Meisler’s autobiography “On the Vistula Facing East”, was first published in 1996 by Andre Deutsch, London and has been reprinted. In 1999, the Czech Academy of Art awarded him the ‘Franz Kafka’ Gold Medal for Artistic Achievement. In 2002, both the Russian and the Ukrainian Academies of Art elected him Honorary Academician. In 2006 the sculpture group, “Children of the Kindertransport” was erected in Hope Square, Liverpool Street Station, London. He was awarded with the “Freedom of the City of London”. Two additional sculpture groups commemorating the departure and journey of the Kindertransport were erected in Berlin and Gdansk in 2008 and 2009.”Trains to Life, Trains to Death” and “Kindertransport – the Departure”. In December 2011 he unveiled a public sculpture in the port of Rotterdam, Holland “Channel Crossing...