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Recently I came upon a portion of a collection of my own sculpture work, Bronzes from the Sea, as the Collector was now in a nursing home. He had previously passed on the bronzes to his children. None could decide on how to fairly divide the sculptures so they asked me to handle their sale. The collector was an old friend and who acquired about eight or ten different sculptures, not all from this collection. In deference to the children's wishes the collector will remain anonymous.
The story is interesting just the same and my friend, a photographer, entered my life at the very beginning of my effort to break into the New York art market. We met when I was commissioned in 1972, by Time Magazine, to do a ‘Man of the Year’ cover. I had shown Time’s Art Director some recent Portrait Busts I was exhibiting with Portraits Inc., located just a few blocks north of Time-Life, on Madison and 57th Street.
When I completed the Bust for
Time which was of Richard Nixon, they asked me if I had a photographer,
I did not and they sent me to a studio that had photographed countless
covers for Time.
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