Ivan Mestrovic, (north American, 1883-1962), a patinated bronze model of a maiden, portrayed as nude and seated on drapery with her knees raised, her head turned round to sinister, the base inscribed 'MESTROVIC', above a shaped ebonised wood revolving base, the bronze 29cm high, the height overall 35cm This bronze is offered with a hand written and signed letter from Mestrovic, addressed from Zagreb, 8th March 1936. Þar Sir, I have received your letter, and it gives me great pleasure to tell you that the little statue of miss, of which sent the photograph, was made in London, in 1916, and was a study of woman bending, that I never completed in big size ' (sic) A newspaper clipping from Time Magazine from May 1953 reports that 'Three mornings a week he leaves his home in Syracuse, N.Y. to teach at Syracuse University. The rest of the time he pads about in beret and white smock, puffing king-sized cigarettes and working furiously '