Paul Suttman (American, 1933-1993) Bronze Still Life Sculpture, signed. Size: 6.5'' x 4.75'' x 4.5'' (17 x 12 x 11 cm). Provenance: The Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection. Artist Biography: Mr. Suttman, who was born on July 16, 1933, in Enid, Okla., earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico in 1956 and his master's degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1958. He also studied with the Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzu. As a young man Mr. Suttman designed and built racing cars, worked as a draftsman for the Atomic Energy Commission and was an assistant of the architect Eero Saarinen. He had his first exhibition with the Donald Morris Gallery in Detroit in 1959 and from 1962 to 1973 exhibited regularly at the Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York City. Mr. Suttman, who was awarded a Prix de Rome three times in the mid-1960's, lived in Italy from 1962 to 1975. His early work was sometimes compared with Rodin's and Renoir's because of its loose, Impressionistic surface. In the 1970's, his work became more precisely realistic and focused on life-size still lifes, often involving tables or tabletops, whose objects sometimes seem precariously balanced and about to fall.

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