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Edberhardt The Wave marble sculpture

Auction Date: January 23, 2021

Estimate: $500 - 700

Sold for: $780





Lot: 299

(German/American, 1930 - 2020),
The Wave, 2005
carrara marble sculpture
sculpture: 9.5 x 28 x 18 inches, overall (with black marble base): 11.5 x 28 x 18 inches
initialed lower left and dated 2005
Provenance: In 1957, Eberhardt graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Tbingen, in Baden-WrVemberg, Germany, after which he migrated to the USA. Between 1957-1962, Dr. Eberhardt did postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago, Arkansas and Notre Dame, followed by a two-year Fellowship at the Mellon Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1964, he was o ered a position at the University of Puerto Rico Nuclear Center, which gave him the opportunity to continued his research in free radical chemistry. Although the Nuclear Center was closed, Dr. Angel Romn Franco, his angel of fate, hired him to work at the Cancer Center. In 1982, he became Assistant Professor at the Pathology Department of the UPRs School of Medicine. In 1995, Dr. Eberhardt was promoted to full-me Professor and eventually rered. In 2000, Dr. Eberhardt published the scientic monograph Reactive Oxygen Metabolites. Chemistry and Medical Consequences. In 2007, his book Life and Death in an Oxygen Atmosphere was published. In the early 1980s, Manfred started taking sculpture classes at the Escuela de Artes Plscas under the direction of Melquiades Rosario Sastre and later also under Andrs Sierra. He discovered a new passion in his life: sculpting. In 1988, he did a workshop on Modelling the Head and Figure under Bruno Lucchesi, and by 1990, he was immersed in marble sculpng at the Art Institute of Pietrasanta, Italy, the medieval town in Tuscany which he tried to visit every year to work on his marble statues. Between 1992-1993 Manfred enjoyed taking mold making and plastic casing workshops in New Jersey, USA
Exhibition History: Dr. Eberhardt participated in several art exhibitions: beginning in 1986, a group exhibition at the Escuela de Artes Plscas, in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1996, a solo exhibition Glasperlenspiel, in San Juan, Puerto Rico and in 2007, 2009 and 2011, at juried sculpture exhibitions at Santa Clara City Hall, in Santa Clara, California. One of his favorite sculptures, Life Started in the Ocean, stands at the entrance of the School of Nursing at the University of California- San Jos Campus, where his beloved Marlowe studied.
Note: This work came straight from Dr. Manfred Karl Eberhardts studio in San Jose, CA.


Auction Date: January 23, 2021


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