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President of the U.S.A. & Saxophonist Bill Clinton, Bill Potts (1936-2017), Denver, Colorado, 1996.
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Marlborough, Massachusetts
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President of the U.S.A. & Saxophonist Bill Clinton, Bill Potts (1936-2017), Denver, Colorado, 1996. Carved and painted wooden sculpture depicting standing U.S. President Clinton (b. 1946) wearing transparent sunglasses and playing a detachable saxophone of silver-painted wood, wire, and cloth, mounted to square platform with painted title, signature, and date; likely modeled after Clinton's extraordinary musical performance on the Arsenio Hall Show during his 1992 presidential campaign, 22cm wide, 27cm deep, 50cm high (9 1/4in wide, 11in deep, 20in high). Footnotes: Note A 1993 version of Potts' sculpture appeared in 'Tokens & Treasures: Gifts to Twelve Presidents,' Gallery of the National Archives, Washington, DC, 22 March 1996-2 February 1997. Literature Robert and Anne Levine, American History in Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection, (s.n.: Robert and Anne Levine, 2017), 110. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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President of the U.S.A. & Saxophonist Bill Clinton, Bill Potts (1936-2017), Denver, Colorado, 1996. Carved and painted wooden sculpture depicting standing U.S. President Clinton (b. 1946) wearing transparent sunglasses and playing a detachable saxophone of silver-painted wood, wire, and cloth, mounted to square platform with painted title, signature, and date; likely modeled after Clinton's extraordinary musical performance on the Arsenio Hall Show during his 1992 presidential campaign, 22cm wide, 27cm deep, 50cm high (9 1/4in wide, 11in deep, 20in high). Footnotes: Note A 1993 version of Potts' sculpture appeared in 'Tokens & Treasures: Gifts to Twelve Presidents,' Gallery of the National Archives, Washington, DC, 22 March 1996-2 February 1997. Literature Robert and Anne Levine, American History in Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection, (s.n.: Robert and Anne Levine, 2017), 110. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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