Franz Bergmann Orientalist Arab Slave Nude Group Cold Painted Bronze Signed 1910 Decorative Arts 12 cm X 11

12 cm X 11

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Franz Bergmann Orientalist Arab Slave Nude Group Cold Painted Bronze Signed 1910 Decorative Arts 12 cm X 11A very large 24" (61cm) Franz Xavier Bergmann (1861 1936) cold painted bronze group statue, signed, Austria, circa 1910. The bronze in the Orientalist manner & depicts a young slave girl and an Arab trader, the two figures standing on a rocky outcrop. He wearing a cold painted robe and she protecting her modesty with a garment. The statue is signed with Bergmann's initial "B" inside a twin handled urn, below are the letters "GESCH" an abbreviation for