April 2025 | Session II (Lots 243-464)
Sat, Apr 12, 2025 04:00PM EDT
Lot 292
Dave McGary (1958-2013) 42 inches overall height
Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000
Sold for
$38,025
Sold Price includes BP
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,500 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
Artist: Dave McGary; Title: Blessing of the Bear; Medium: Bronze, cast 37/40; Dimensions: 42 inches overall height; Signed: Signed; Verso: Thumbprint in bronze; Framed/Base: 42 x 28 x 20 inches - 175 lbs.
Overall Dimensions
Height: 42.00
Width: 28.00
Depth: 20.00
Weight: 175.00
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Provenance: Private collection, Arizona In Dave McGary: American Realism in Bronze, author Michael Duty writes about McGary’s use of texture, which can be seen here in the masterwork version of Blessing of the Bear. “The clear evocation of character is one of the most successful elements of the sculpture but there are other techniques and qualities that are equally telling. Texture has been rendered here in a startlingly realistic manner. While the entire sculpture, of course, is composed of the same bronze material, one notices immediately the way McGary has duplicated the actual contrasts of texture between each element—the wood of the club, the feathers, the beads, the skin of the man, the leather leggings—all these items have such a strong sense of reality that one imagines them to have been made of the very things that they represent.”
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