Elliot Offner (American, 1931-2010) Asian Pheasant

Description:

Elliot Offner (American, 1931-2010)

Asian Pheasant
Signed "offner" on the top of the base.
Bronze with gold/brown patina, 17 x 25 x 7 1/2 in. (43.2 x 63.5 x 19.0 cm),on a wood plinth.
Condition: Dust and dirt to interstices.

Provenance: Purchased from Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts; Collection of Robert Bradford Newman (1917-1983),professor of architectural acoustics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and co-founder of Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

N.B. The sculpture is noted as edition 3 of 6, and is titled as above in an earlier appraisal.


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