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Modern Discoveries
Property from The Wolf Family Collection
La Petite
Lot Closed
October 4, 06:18 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from The Wolf Family Collection
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
1872 - 1955
La Petite
inscribed Bessie Potter Vonnoh / No. VI (on the base); inscribed ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y- (along the base)
bronze
height: 7 1/2 in.
height: 19.1 cm.
Conceived circa 1902; cast circa 1921.
Richard Maynard, New York (commissioned in December 1921)
Plaza Art Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in October 1978 by the present owner
Rilla Evelyn Jackman, American Arts, New York 1928, pl. CCX, illustration of another cast
Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions, Boston 1990, p. 114
Exh. Cat., Old Lyme, Connecticut, Florence Griswold Museum; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and Cincinnati Art Museum, Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women, 2008-09, p. 184
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