Lot 123
ROBERT TAIT MCKENZIE
Lot 123 Details
ROBERT TAIT MCKENZIE
SPRINTER
bronze
signed and inscribed “copyright 1909”, mounted on a marble base, sold together with a block of four stamps (framed) depicting “Sprinter” and issued for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Canada.
height 9" — 22.5 cm.
Estimate $7,000-$9,000
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Literature:
Andrew J. Kozar, R. Tait McKenzie, the sculptor of athletes, The University of Tennesse Press, Knoxville, U.S.A., 1975, page 44 (Chapter X entitled Sprinter) and page 45, illustrated.
Note:
This work is described as “a vivid realization of suspended energy...waiting to start, with every muscle quivering in tense eagerness for the signal.”