RARE Kauba Old West How-Kola Polychrome Bronze Austria

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One of the very best of master sculptor Carl Kauba's works, "How - Kola!" or "Friend , Don't Shoot" is a large-scale, beautifully detailed period evocation of the romance of the Old West. Kauba (1865-1922) was born and studied in Vienna, and his formal Continental training shows to good advantage both in the depiction of musculature and action and in the fine detail. But he also traveled widely in the American West and was fascinated by what he saw t, as were so many Europeans at the time, and those images were given form and substance in his studio back home. are cowboy and Native American engaged in battle, at the point just before tragedy occurs, when one fortuitously recognizes the other, bonds of friendship, however old, running far deeper than present conflict. The fineness of the casting really is impressive, as is the old polychrome detailing and the separately-applied fluid lines and curves of harness and headdress. The title is cast into the front, with the word "Austria" cast just below it. The work is dated in Berman's at ca. 1900, and I am dating this example at about that same time period. Two versions were produced, one with each figure on a separate base, and this one, w the dynamic interplay of the two figures really comes to life. Overall, it measures approximately 24 1/2" h. x 13" w. x 10 1/2" deep at the base. read more

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