Large Carved White Marble Bust of a Classical Woman
Signed with a Monogram, early 20th Century
10" x 14" x 17" tall
John Hovannes (American, 1900-1973)
Mermaid
Stone sculpture, signed and dated "1962"
Height: 17.5" (with base)
(There are traces of red paint on the sides, perhaps a flaw in the stone)
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Hovannes, an Armenian, was born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey and initially educated there, probably escaping at the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)...