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Paul Petrovich Troubetzkoy Terrier Dog Bronze

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Paul Petrovich Troubetzkoy Terrier Dog Bronze
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7 3/8" by 5 5/8" by 3". Title is Terrier. Purchased from Etcetera Antiques in Saginaw Michigan 1973 for $650. Paul Petrovich Troubetzkoy (1866 - 1938) was active/lived in California, New York / Russian Federation, Italy, France. Paul Troubetzkoy is known for Small scale figure and monumental sculpture and portrait painting. Paolo or Paul Troubetzkoy was an artist and a sculptor of Russia's Troubetzkoy princely family, who was described by G.B. Shaw as "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times". He worked in Russia, America, England and Italy. He was a self taught artist, although he learned sculpture from Giuseppe Grandi. He is associated with impressionism, due to his ability to grasp sketchy movements in his bronze works. He "portraited" the society of the Belle Epoque. Few of his bronzes are still available in the market. Quite famous is the 35 cm high portrait of Costance Stewart Richardson called The Dancer. The largest and best known of his works is the monumental equestrian statue of the Russian Tsar Alexander III in St. Petersburg, Russia. The monument was opened in 1909 on the Nevsky Prospekt near the Moskovsky Vokzal terminal. After the Russian revolution of 1917, the Soviet government removed the monument from the main street to the backyard of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the monument to Tsar Alexander III was placed in front of the Marble Palace near the embankment of the Neva river. Troubetzkoy was a vegetarian. His vegetarian friend Bernard Shaw remarked: "Troubetzkoy is a gigantic and terrifying humanitarian who can do anything with an animal except eat it". Alexandra Tolstoy, daughter of the great novelist Leo Tolstoy wrote in her father's biography: "From time to time he posed - a tiring obligation - for painters and sculptors: for Repin, Pasternak who did a study of the family, Aronson, and Paolo Trubetskoy. Trubetskoy, a Russian educated in Italy, did some splendid little statues of Tolstoy - one of him on horseback. Father was very fond of him. A sweet and childlike person in addition to his great gifts, he read practically nothing, spoke little, all his life was wrapped up in sculpture. As a convinced vegetarian he would not eat meat but cried: "Je ne mange pas de cadavre!" if anyone offered him some. In his studio in St. Petersburg there was a whole zoo: a bear, a fox, a horse, and a vegetarian wolf."
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