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Jules Léon Butensky (b. 1871)
Lot 152: f,w - JULES LEON BUTENSKY AMERICAN, 1871-1947
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Sotheby's
November 16, 2006
London, United Kingdom
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Description
EXILE
measurements note
67.5cm., 26½in.
signed and dated: J Butensky © 1915, inscribed "CELLINI" BRONZE WORKS N-Y- and THEY ARE GONE WITHOUT STRENGTH BEFORE THE PURSUER and EXILE in hebrew
bronze, dark brown patina
NOTE
Butensky was of Russian-Jewish origin who studied under Caspar Von Zumbusch in Vienna, 1892-93, and afterwards with Mercie and Boucher in Paris. He emigrated to the US and his Universal Peace is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art while another cast of the present Exile is in the White House. See Optiz, pp.55-6.
19th & 20th Century European Sculpture
bySotheby's
November 16, 2006, 12:00 AM GMT
London, United Kingdom
About the Artist
Jules Léon Butensky (b. 1871)
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