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Nov 12, 2022
(France/New York, 1883-1952)
Regard, seated nude, 1909, signed on naturalistic base "J. Davidson/Paris 1909", patinated bronze, 13-1/4 x 8 x 10 in.
Note:This beautifully sensitive bronze was sculpted in 1909, the same year Davidson married his wife, Yvonne, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney found him a studio near hers in New York, where she helped him get his start through commissions. In 1913, he participated in the Armory show that introduced modernism to America. It was in the 1920s that he became very popular with luminaries for commissioned portraits. His work is represented well in major museums with over sixty in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. He was associated with many including Gertrude Stein, Helen Keller, Pablo Picasso, Will Rogers, John Marin, and many other renowned individuals of the first half of the twentieth century.
Provenance: Private Collection
warm brown patina, some paint spatter
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