Lot description
Max Kalish (1891-1945) Iron Forger inscribed 'M. Kalish / 26' (on the base) and stamped with foundry mark 'MERONI RADICE / CIRE / PERDUE / PARIS' (along the base)bronze with dark brown patina17 3/4in highModeled in 1926. Provenance: The artist.Will Allen, Sheffield Steel Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, commissioned from the above.By descent to the present owner.LiteratureN.L. Lewis, The Sculpture of Max Kalish, Cleveland, Ohio, 1933, n.p., pl. 13, another example illustrated.E. Genaver, M. Kalish, Labor Sculpture, New York, 1938, n.p., pl. 13, another example illustrated.