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A CARVED AND PAINTED FIGURAL GROUP, "THE TEMPTATION"
A CARVED AND PAINTED FIGURAL GROUP, "THE TEMPTATION"

EDGAR TOLSON (1904-1984), CIRCA 1970

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A CARVED AND PAINTED FIGURAL GROUP, "THE TEMPTATION"
Edgar Tolson (1904-1984), circa 1970
Carved figures of Adam and Eve with articulated faces and outstretched arms facing carved flowering tree with spreading branches and with a black-painted snake wrapped around the trunk, on a rectangular base
14in. high, 7in. wide, 9.3/8in. deep

拍品專文

A similar Tolson figural group depicting the temptation of Adam and Eve is illustrated in Bishop, American Folk Sculpture (New York, 1974), p. 194, fig. 353 and another closely related example was sold at Sotheby's New York, January 19, 1996, lot 1224.