1147263

Antique Bronze Dog Bookends Sculpture Signed #1147263

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Antique Bronze Dog Bookends Sculpture Signed #1147263
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Here is a spectacular pair of French bronze bookends sighed by the artist sculpture Paul Herzel. As your can see they are tall and stately dogs. The detail is very nice and the surface patina is rich and lustrous. There is a little bit of green oxidation going on at the base of both of these bookends which is the charming part of antique bronzes. They measure 8 ½? high and base measures 5?x 3?. They are quite substantial in weight as well.
The following is from Marc Houseman, Museum Director, Washington Missouri Historical Society, Washington, Franklin County, Missouri.

Paul Herzel was born in Silesia, Germany in 1876. He died in May of 1956 at the City Hospital in New York City at the age of 79. When he was seven years old his family emigrated to the United States locating at St. Louis, Missouri. As a young boy, he began drawing, painting scenery along the Mississippi River, and modeling clay which he found along the river bank. His father died when Paul was 14 or 15, and he went to work as a machinist with the American Brake Company in St. Louis.

While working there, he also began to study painting at the St. Louis Art School at about age 22. During this time, he helped to establish the Brush and Pencil Club of St. Louis. Herzel became interested in the animals at the Forest Park Zoo in St. Louis and began making sketches, paintings, and models. When about 28 years of age, he went to Europe visiting art museums and copied Velasquez' paintings in Madrid. Returning to ...
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#: an4955</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:very good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:late 1800's early 1900's</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Antique Bronze Dog Bookends Sculpture Signed</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Northport Maine 04849</td></tr>
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