310 Ready to Dance

SOLD
Winning Bid Undisclosed
This item SOLD at 2016 Apr 02 @ 15:51UTC-7 : PDT/MST
Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 35,000.00 USD
Estimated at 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD
Ready to Dance
Artist: Houser, AllanDate of Birth: 1914-1994
Medium: Bronze, cast number 5/6
Dimensions: 76 inches high
Signed: Signed and dated 88
Verso:

Creating motion through a composition of overlapping planes that recalls Brancusi, Giacometti, and Boccioni, in Ready to Dance Houser gives the dancer a beatific aspect and ramrod straight spine to indicate her inner preparedness to enter into a ceremony. Her hands, folded in joyous prayer, respond, as it were, to the uplifting movement of the hem of her long robe that seems to signal the presence of the divine. Life, work and worship are made of the whole cloth of purpose; they are aspects of sanctification that cannot be separated.