Special Offer: Bronze Sculpture “Waiting” by Allan Houser [R]

Special Offer: The consignor of this Allan Houser bronze has authorized us to reduce the price from $29,500 to a new price of $25,000.

Allan Houser, a Chiricahua Apache, was indisputably one of America's foremost artists in mediums of sculpture, drawing, paintings, wood carving or whatever medium he chose to try. He was a modernist as well as a traditionalist and was certainly one of the most famous Native American artists of the 20^th century.

The author of the definitive book on Houser comments on this bronze as follows: "(The bronze) 'Waiting' (1978), a windblown woman wrapped in an elegantly detailed shawl, (is) among the example(s) of Houser's attenuated linearity in bronze. The figure has been interpenetrated not merely to reveal interior volumes, but to permit the play of environmental space and light, reducing the weight of the mass and opening the metallic framework to a graceful pattern suggesting luminosity, calculated motion, and the implied fullness of curving, gathered, traditional Indian women's skirts." (Allan Houser by Barbara H. Perlman)

This bronze was cast in 1978 in an edition of 20. This is number 8 of 20. It is published in the book Allan Houser (HA-O-ZOUS) by Barbara H. Perlman, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston. 1987. A copy of the book, autographed by Houser and Perlman, is included with the purchase of the bronze.

Condition: The bronze is in original excellent condition.

Provenance: ex. coll. Midwestern USA collector