Lot 376: EROTIC BRONZE BY CARL KAUBA (1865 - 1922)

This Austrian sculptor was born in Vienna in 1865. His teachers were Karl Waschmann (1848-1905), known for his ivory sculptures and portrait plaquettes of contemporary celebrities, and Stefan Schwartz (1851-1924), who exhibited in Paris,including the Exposition Universelle of 1900 where he won a gold medal. Kauba's intricate bronzes, imported to the United States between 1895 and 1912,. Kauba was part of the nineteenth-century tradition of polychrome bronze sculpture. Erotic bronze by Carl Kauba showing a woman laying on a bed with cover ,the bed is on a wonderful cold painted bronze oriental rug with fantastic detail and color ,when the cover is removed from the womans body she is fully naked except for hershoes" Great Piece " The bronze is signed C. Kauba on the edge of the bed, also on the bottom it reads Geschutzt with the letters KF in a diamond shape and then the word AUSTRIA . Condition very good examine