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THBALEXANDER ZEITLIN (RUSSIAN 1872-1943)
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566 East Boston Post Road
Mamaroneck, NY 10543
United States
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ALEXANDER ZEITLIN (RUSSIAN 1872-1943)
Le Reveil [The Awakening], 1934
wax on wooden base
overall with base: 41 x 22 cm (16 1/2 x 8 5/8 in.)
signed and dated in wax
EXHIBITED
New York No-Jury Exhibition of the Salons of America, Forum Galleries (label on verso)
Alexander Zeitlin was born in Tiflis in 1872. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the tuition of the leading sculptor of neo-Baroque monuments Kaspar von Zumbusch. After relocating to Paris, where he settled for nearly two decades, Zeitlin continued his education at the Academie des Beaux-Arts alongside with Ernest Henri Dubois and Laurent Marqueste. The artist actively exhibited in Paris and Europe between 1900 and 1914. Alexander Zeitlin moved to New York in 1915, where he successfully worked on numerous commissions, mostly portraying his prominent contemporaries, such as Albert Einstein, Efrem Zimbalist, Israel Zangwill, Emile Zola and many others. In 1929 he received a medal from the American Federation of Labor for his outstanding work on a memorial for Samuel Gompers. The National Portrait Gallery in London acquired a cast of his bust of Algernon Graves.
Such graceful and delicate depiction of a female body, as the present lot, signifies artistic manner of Alexander Zeitlin, combining his exceptional portraiture skills and the most remarkable stylistic influences of early twentieth-century Paris. - Buyer's Premium
