Take Home The Bronze

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There may be a few Greek gods roaming the grounds of the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills for a while. But it’s for a good cause.

Sabin Howard, a renowned New York artist who specializes in realistic bronze sculptures of human figures and, yes, Greek gods, has teamed with a local charity to display his art at the luxury hotel. The exhibit will run through the end of the Los Angeles Art Show in late January.

As part of the partnership, Howard has agreed to donate one-third of the proceeds of the sale of his work to the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation, which assists single parents with gravely ill children.

And it’s more than chump change. A buyer has already stepped forward for two of the sculptures valued at $165,000 each.

“This is not a little art exhibit,” said Valerie Sobel, who founded the Beverly Hills-based charity in 2000 after her 19-year-old son, Andre, died of a brain tumor.

Heavily influenced by Renaissance art, the 46-year-old sculptor, who studied art in Rome, Philadelphia and New York, has been likened by the New York Times to Donatello and Rodin for his striking realist works.

A typical piece, which is sculpted in clay before being cast in bronze, can take more than a year to complete.

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