Lot 4296: Patigian Figurative Sculpture

Inscribed on the side: {Haig Patigian} and at the base: {Cal if. Art. Bronze. Fnry. L.A.} Height: 17 x inches ( 43.2 x 0.0 cm ) Exhibition: {Early Artists of the Bohemian Club}, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California, August 17-October 13, 2002, No. 67.

Brown patinated bronze

A catalogue of the exhibition {"Early Artists of the Bohemian Club"} accompanies this lot. . . Patigian created both public and private sculptures in San Francisco, one commission being a number of figural groups for the Panama-Pacific Internat ional Exposition of 1915. {Friendship} is a smaller version of one of those sculptural figures. A similar bronze is in the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.