Isidore Konti ( American 1862-1938) Genius of Immortality, c.1910-11, cast c. 1912, bronze with green and verdigris patination, signed I. Konti, with foundry mark: Roman Bronze Works, N-Y. Cast as a seated contemplative youth. This lot includes the publication "The Sculpture of Isidore Konti, 1862-1938," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, Morgan Press, 1975, where a model of the present sculpture is pictured as figure 40.

Dimensions: 25 in.h. x 14 in.w. x 13 in.d.

Condition: Very Good with verdigris patina and oxidation and some corrosion of surface from use as garden sculpture.

This large scale work was formerly sited in a garden in the Pittsburgh, PA area. Isidor Konti, while born in Austria, relocated to New York and settled in Yonkers, where he became an important cultural figure, and was instrumental in the founding of the Museum there, now called the Hudson River Museum. Genius of Immortality was, during his lifetime, one of his most loved and admired works. Examples can be found in the collections of the Hudson River Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.