Lot 45: LIZA TODD-TIVEY 'Nashua and Clem' Bronze Sculpture on woodbase.

LIZA TODD-TIVEY (b 1957) 'Nashua and Clem' Bronze Sculpture on woodbase.

Bronze weighs 12 x 14 inches and weighs nearly 30 pounds.

Sculpture

Bronze on wood base. Excellent condition on original wood base. Signed and numbered #36/75 within the bronze. Original nameplate on wood base

Miss Todd-Tivey has become known among horse enthusiasts and art connoisseurs as one of the foremost horse sculptors in America today. Her much-admired bronzes of Northern Dancer, Raise A Native, Seattle Slew, Nashua & Clem Brooks, and Secretariat as a foal have established her in the collections of the most knowledgeable art experts in the world of horse racing! (Northern Dancer, Seattle Slew, and Secretariat were executed as private commissions for the owners and have been widely acclaimed as the most important bronze racehorse sculptures since John Skeaping died in 1978).  The embodiment in bronze of the very soul of a thoroughbred horse is an accomplishment of which few living artists are capable. This high intellectual grasp of a mood, a gesture, a character, a quirk is the stock-in-trade of Liza Todd-Tivey, unquestionably one of the finest, if not the finest, equine sculptors in the U.S.A.  Mrs. Penny Chenery for whom she modeled Somethingroyal and her foal, Secretariat, Spendthrift Farm, Mrs. Jacqueline Getty, Windfields, Farm, and Claiborne Farm amongst many others have commissioned Liza.  Miss Todd is of course a member of one of America’s most distinguished film and theatrical families. (Elizabeth Taylor & Michael Todd!)