IMPORTANT CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED SCULPTURE OF M. PAVESE, ROCCO PAVESE, CIRCA 1910

IMPORTANT CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED SCULPTURE OF M. PAVESE, ROCCO PAVESE, CIRCA 1910

With incised "hair" and black tailcoat and vest with relief-carved buttons and lapels, secured to a square platform base with an egg-and-dart molded edge. lacking two fingers on right hand.

Height 31 in. by Width 13 in. by Depth 13 in.

Condition Report:
Likely lacking violin. several fingers lost.

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Provenance:
Pavese family, Grand Rapids, Michigan;

Jim Fisher Collection;

Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan;

Maurice Cohen Collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan;

Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Raymond and Susan Egan Collection, August 5, 2006, lot 774;

Allan Katz, Woodbridge, Connecticut.