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Carol Miller: Panther , Mexico 1967

38h x 14w x 11d inches, painted bronze, signed "Carol Z 67". Bio: Carol Miller (Los Angeles 1933- ) Carol Miller has been producing her trademark sculptures in bronze for over 40 years. Moving to Mexico from her native Los Angeles in the early 1950's, she enjoyed a career as a journalist when an interview with the late Mexican sculptress Charlotte Yazbek for Life magazine changed her life. At Yazbek's encouragement, Miller launched herself into the sculpting world (with the use of Yazbek's own tools) and has enjoyed a prolific career. She was recently honored with a one-woman show, Carol Miller, 40 Years in Sculpture at Mexico City's Museo Dolores Olmedo. In Reclining Cat, Miller invokes her signature use of the featureless face. She once remarked, "Only God can make a face," and she consequently leaves the emotion-laden works such as Cat to the viewer's imagination. With a rich, even and dark brown patina, works such as this have contributed to her international success. Named to the 'Superior Academic Order' by the Accademio Internazionale Greci-Marino in Italy, her pieces are in museums and private collections around the world. Known for using the 'lost wax method' of producing her fine works, a painstaking process requiring many laborious and unforgiving steps, Miller's subjects are almost exclusively people and animals, all full of emotion and often conveying a sense of movement.

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