Live Auction 14965Interiors
Chaim Gross (1904-1991)
Lot 362 PROPERTY FROM THE BASS MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND

Chaim Gross (1904-1991)

Happy Mother

Closed13 December 2017

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USD 23,750

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Chaim Gross (1904-1991)
Happy Mother
inscribed 'CHAIM/GROSS/1958' and 'Bedi-Rassy N.Y' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
52 in. (132.1 cm.) high

The artist.
Alexander Rittmaster, Woodmere, New York, commissioned from the above, 1958.
Mr. and Mrs. John Madden, Coconut Grove, Florida; Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Brenner, New Orleans, Louisiana; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rittmaster, London, by descent.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1981.

Specialist note

The present work was cast in an edition of six. Other casts of Happy Mother are in the collections of Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas; Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Hubert Humphrey Federal Building, Washington, D.C.