A GROUP OF TWO BEETHOVEN PLASTER LIFE MASK REPLICAS, 20TH CENTURY, each realistically modeled and one waxed with light fawn colored tinting, verso flat back centering an integral steel suspension loop above incised inscription, "COPY FROM / LIFE MASK / OF BEETHOVEN / BY FRANZ KLEIN / 1812," height: 9 3/4", width: 7"; together with another modern similarly cast Beethoven life mask in natural white plaster with red paint drippings and small gray spots splattered throughout, verso hollowed interior beneath an integral suspension loop, height: 8 1/2", width: 7". Provenance: Estate of David E. Brauer, Houston, Texas.