Original 1959 lithograph "Figure with Sword" by Milton Hebald, signed in pencil and numbered in the lower margin and dry stamped "Il Torcoliere" in the lower right corner by the publisher; sheet size: 20 x 16 inches.  Excellent condition.

(1917-2015) was born and raised in New York City.  He studied at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design, and the Beaux-Arts Institute.  During the Depression, he worked for the WPA, and his first one-person show was in 1937 at the American Artists Congress Gallery.  He also exhibited regularly at the Whitney Museum.  In  1955, Hebald moved to Rome, Italy, when he was awarded the Prix-de-Rome to attend the American Academy in Rome.  Later he moved to Lago di Bracciano until 2004, when he returned to the United States.

Primarily known as a sculptor, Milton Hebald created mostly figural pieces with Abstract and Baroque theatricality.  He was interested in the roots of sculpture from the eastern Mediterranean tradition through the Renaissance and Baroque periods, especially Bernini of Rome.  His most famous work is the "Zodiac Screen", a 220-foot-long bronze with 12 Zodiac sculptures, each 15 to 20 feet long, for the Pan American Terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport facade.  At the time it was the world's largest sculpture.  Pan Am declared bankruptcy in 1991 and Delta Air Lines acquired the terminal, and the Zodiac sculptures were removed and remain in storage to this day.  Another of his subjects was the novelist James Joyce of whom he did a life-size portrait, which marks the author's grave in Zurich, Switzerland.  He also sculpted characters from the Greek tale of "Ulysses, and created the bust of Richard Tucker at New York City's Lincoln Center.  He also created a small number of works on paper.  "Figure with Sword", done during his time in Rome, is one of his finest.