CHAIM GROSS BRONZE CARING MOTHER AND CHILD SCULPTURE

Outstanding Vintage Bronze Sculpture, signed Chaim Gross lower base, titled 'Caring' featuring a mother raising her child up in superb high relied impressionist form, with a rich aged patina bronze mounted on a wooden base.

DETAILS:
- BRONZE SIZE: 5-1/4 In. Height x 5-1/2 In. Width.
- TOTAL SIZE: 7-1/2 In. Height.
- CONDITION: Some wear to the wooden base, bronze in perfect condition.

BACKGROUND:
Gross was born to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa (now known as Mezhgorye, Ukraine), in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia (which was annexed into the Ukrainian SSR in 1939 and became part of newly independent Ukraine in 1991). During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest to join their older siblings Sarah and Pinkas. Gross applied to and was accepted by the art academy in Budapest and studied under the painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, Austria shortly before immigrating to the United States in 1921.

Some wear to the wooden base, bronze in perfect condition.