Dimensions: 64 x 34 x 29 cm
Signed, dated and described on the left: 'H. GLICENSTEIN | 1921 ROMA'
On the right side foundry mark: 'FOND. CASANDRI ROMA'
Origins
gift of the artist to the translator and literary critic, Joseph Leftwich (1892-1983) and his wife Sala, London (from the 1920s).
private collection, London
Exhibited
Sculpture & Drypoints by Glicenstein, Greatorex Galleries, London, April 1922
Literature
Charlotte Scholod, Life & Work of Enrico Glicenstein, New York 2015 (ill.).
Sculpture & Drypoints by Glicenstein, exhibition catalog, Greatorex Galleries in London, London 1922, cat. no. 11
Biography
Painter, sculptor and printmaker. From 1889 to 1895 he studied in Munich with W. von Rümann. In 1895 the academy in Berlin awarded him the Prix de Rome for his sculpture Arion. Since 1895 he lived and worked in Rome, and since 1910, after returning to the country, he took over the chair vacated by X. Dunikowski's chair of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since 1928 he lived in New York, rarely sending works to Poland for exhibitions. He created in wood, marble, bronze and plaster - figure groups, busts and portraits.
