Rebirth 1974

Year1974

Hand SignedLower Right in Pencil 

Condition Excellent - There is a stain in the matting on the matting stain does not affect picture 

Framed with GlassGold Lear 

Purchased fromPrivate Collector 2016 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID97149

Chaim Gross - United States

Art Brokerage: Chaim Gross Austrian Artist: b. 1904-1991 He was an Austrian born American sculptor. He was born in the then Austro-Hungarian village of Kolomyia (since 1991, in the Ukraine) and immigrated to the United States in 1921. His art studies began at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before he moved to the United States, where it continued at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design where he studied with Elie Nadelman and at the Art Students League of New York, with Robert Laurent. Gross began exhibiting both his sculpture and graphic art in 1935, and was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949. Primarily Gross was a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as a member of Artists Equity, the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He was a founder and served as the first president of the Sculptors Guild. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.