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Day Two features fine art, artist portfolios, Asian decorative arts, and Fabergé collectibles from prominent Michigan collections. Highlights include Tom Wesselmann screenprints; over 30 lots of artist portfolios and limited edition books by Motherwell, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold, Elizabeth Catlett, and others; a large selection of carved Chinese jade, coral, and hardstone sculptures; and House of Igor Carl Fabergé Imperial eggs, clocks, and chess sets from the Collection of Marianne Endicott, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI.
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Lot 1189

Milton Elting Hebald (American, 1917-2015) Bronze Sculpture, Ca. 1964, 'James Joyce', H 17.5" W 9" Depth 7"

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$2,250

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Marked "Hebald 1964, x/xx". Depicting a seated James Joyce (1882-1941) with his legs crossed and a book in his hand. Base height 1.25". A full-sized version of this bronze statue is featured at James Joyce's final resting place at the Fluntern Cemetery in Zurich, Switzerland. 

Provenance:
Property from a Southfield, MI private collector.

Literature:
"A life-sized sculpture of James Joyce will be placed and unveiled on the writer's grave at Fluntern Cemetery in Zurich, Switzerland, today, a date known to the literary world as Bloomsday. It was on June 16 that Joyce's spiraling story of "Ulysses" and Leopold Bloom occurs. The bronze monument to Joyce, who died in 1941, is a joint gift of Lee Nordness, New York art dealer, and Milton Hebald, an American sculptor. Mr. Nordness visited Joyce's grave in 1948 and said he was stunned to find it was distinguished only by a flat metal marker. In 1962 he asked the writer's son, George Joyce, in Munich, if he might donate a portrait monument. Mr. Joyce agreed provided that he could approve of the sculptor. Mr. Hebald, long an enthusiast of Joyce, agreed to the commission and donated his time. The City of Zurich, at George Joyce's request, exhumed the bodies of James Joyce and his wife-buried in separate sections of the cemetery and placed them in a special area side by side. The expense of moving the bodies was a gift of the city. Mr. Nordness said recently: "This is probably the most satisfying project I have ever worked on in my life. At last a great work of art will mark the memory of the greatest literary spokesman of our century."" The New York Times, June 16, 1966.

Dimensions:
H 17.5" W 9" Depth 7"

Condition

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Property from a Southfield, MI private collector.
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