As a sculptor, one of the first Americans to carve directly, Zorach produced a wide range of figurative pieces, mainly in wood and stone.

It is believed to be among the largest single-owner collection ever to come on the market: 120 animals and 70 figurative pieces expected to fetch about $650,000.

The general disposition of the figurative pieces is in the postures, which range from sitting, reclining, standing, looking and touching toes.

Two glazed ceramic figurative pieces embellished with especially gorgeous flowers make you wish for a vaseful.

They tend toward figurative pieces - oils, watercolors and pastels - but there is the occasional abstract too.

His early works included abstracts and figurative pieces, some with a Native American theme.

"We have slightly more figurative pieces," Ms. Price added.

One client paid $3,800 to move (but not install) a two-ton figurative piece from a Manhattan pier to the Hamptons, Mr. Didier said.

The boulders are used with figurative pieces built in layers of bluestone, which he sometimes salvages from old sidewalks.

After WWII he continued to sculpt, including a figurative piece for the Memorial to the German Resistance.