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Erotica: Sculpture/Garden Design: ▲ William Crozier (1942) Aching, 1981/82 Bronze Edition 1/9 Signed and dated ‘81-82’ and foundry mark Guss Mayr Munchen 132cm by 128.3cm by 231cm. Exhibited: New York, Xavier Fourcade, 1985 The following six lots (lots 104 to 109) of erotic bronzes by William Crozier were formerly in the collection of Robert Skull who with his first wife, was one of the first collectors of contemporary American Art in the 1960’s. The 1973 Sotheby’s auction, ‘The Collection of Robert C. Scull’, of 50 mostly Pop Art lots yielded $2.2 million, and was the first single seller auction of contemporary American art. William Crozier is a figurative sculptor who has lived and worked in New York for more than 30 years. For many years William Crozier was represented by Richard Bellamy and Xavier Fourcade. He has had one-person shows at Xavier Fourcade, Inc, New York, (where a number of these bronzes were exhibited) as well as the Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle and Jason McCoy Gallery, New York. Crozier’s work was included in the 1983 Whitney Biennial Exhibition and is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collector Robert Scull purchased one cast of each of his new pieces from 1970 to 1983 and all of the bronzes in this collection are numbered 1/9. Other bronzes in the edition have subsequently been sold at Sotheby’s and Christies contemporary art sale in New York in the 1980’s and 90’s. Crozier’s public commissions include a monumental-scale sculpture of Senator Jacob Javits for the Jacob Javits Convention Center, The Korean War Veterans Memorial in Kissena Park, Queens, New York and a portrait bust of David Rockefeller for Rockefeller University. Due to the erotic nature of these bronzes we have not illustrated them, however photographs are available on request.