Enoch 'Enrico' Henryk Glicenstein, Polish, 1870-1942, The Prophet, 1919, bronze, the seated figure with a dog lying at his feet, cast signature H.GLICENSTEIN and foundry inscription ROMA FOND.CASANDRI, 65cm high Provenance: Joseph (1892-1983) and Sala Leftwich, who gave a home to Glicenstein when he arrived in London in the 1920s Exhibited: Sculpture & Drypoints by Glicenstein, Greatorex Galleries, 14 Grafton Street, W1, April 1922, no.14 Literature: Life & Works of Enrico Glicenstein, Charlotte Sholod, Tamara Sztyma, Hudson Hills Press Inc, 2015 Note: Sculptor and print maker Enrico Glicenstein was born Henoch Glicenstein into a Jewish family in Turek, Poland. He enrolled at the Academy in Munich (1890-95) and after twice winning the Prix de Rome in 1894 and 1897 he settled in Italy and took Italian citizenship, becoming known as Enrico Glicenstein. He established a reputation in Paris, winning a silver medal in 1900 and reportedly exhibiting his bronze sculpture ‘Messiah’, alongside Rodin's own work, at the latter's suggestion, in the central Rotunda of the Grand Palais in Paris. Later the same year, upon Rodin’s recommendation, Glicenstein was elected an honorary member of the Société des Beaux-Arts. Between 1906 and 1914 he exhibited regularly in Germany, briefly heading the Warsaw School of Fine Arts sculpture department, before returning to Berlin, where he held an important retrospective exhibition that toured to key German cities between 1912 and 1913. The First World War forced Glicenstein's return to Warsaw but in 1921 he resettled in London. Glicenstein held solo exhibitions in Rome and Venice (1925-28), also exhibiting at the 15th Venice Biennale (1928) but had to leave Italy after refusing to join the Fascist Party, and moved permanently to the USA with his son, Emanuel, also an artist in 1935. In the USA he exhibited in Manhattan, as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago and in the 1939 Worlds’ Fair. He died in New York, in December 1942, after a car accident. In 1985 The Glicenstein Museum (now the Israel Bible Museum) was founded in Safed. Glicenstein's works are in public collections throughout Europe and America and include the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Pompidou Centre, Paris; the Israel Museum; the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome; the Krakow and the Warsaw National Museum, Poland; the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Please refer to department for condition report