Elegant Antique Art Deco Bronze Sculpture Dog Saluki Madeleine Fish Park Vintage For Sale

This well cast and lovingly sculpted early to middle 1900\'s figure of a Saluki female measures an impressive 13 7/8\" tall x 17\" long x 4\" wide on its 3/4\" x 14 1/2\" x 4 3/4\" porto nero marble base and is attributed to the sculptor Madeleine Fish Park (1891-1960). She studied animal sculpture with A. Phimister Proctor in the late 1940\'s working at at Hunt\'s Circus and traveled to India to purchase wild animals for Proctor; she kept one of the panther\'s as her personal pet. She was a regular exhibitor at the National Academy of design and National Sculpture Society and was represented by Argent Galleries of New York City in the 1930\'s. Her work was included in the 1940 Whitney Museum National Sculpture Society Exhibition and she has her own one-person show at the JB SpeedMemorial Museum in 1944. According to James R Bakker this work depicts the Sicilian Saluki belonging to the Contessa Jane Gradenigo which Park modeled in Rome ca. 1939.. Park usually signed her works on a bronze base, and this work having been mounted on marble remains unsigned. TALL