Exceptional bronze signed Zelezny

Exceptional bronze plaque with the coat of arms of Liberia (boat, palm tree, sea).
Large, approximately 1.30 m x 1.00 m, slightly curved
Depicting the coat of arms of Liberia, which can be seen, for example, on the commemorative $20 silver coin (Princess Diana)
Probably made during her Italian period.
Provenance: a château in Lot-et-Garonne
Accident and missing material at the bottom (below the signature) see photo 3
Helen Zelezny.
Born August 16, 1882, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which became the Czech Republic.
Died February 12, 1974, in Rome, Italy.
His works were exhibited in Berlin and Vienna in 1907, in Rome in 1925,[5] and at the Doria Pamphilj Gallery in 1932 and in Paris.
Several of Zelezny's works were destroyed during World War II. One was the large central altar depicting the life of Hedwig of Silesia in the church dedicated to this saint in Opava, Czech Silesia.
His works are held in the permanent collections of Hradec nad Moravic Castle, the Silesian Museum (Opava), the Fine Arts Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ostrava,[1] and the National Gallery in Prague. His reliefs hang in the Church of St. Vinca Hedwig in Opava. She created sculpted portraits, including portraits of members of the Habsburg family, Count Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf, Dame Sybil Grahamova, Benito Mussolini, and Tomo Garrigue Masaryk, with whom she had a close relationship from 1932 to 1934. She is also known as an Italian sculptor, having lived and worked for many years in Rome.
Source: Wikipedia

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