Modern Discoveries
Modern Discoveries
Sculpture from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk
Yetta and The Cat Wake Up
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July 20, 04:16 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sculpture from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle
1878 - 1942
Yetta and the Cat Wake Up
inscribed A St L. Eberle. / 1916 (on the base); stamped E. GARGANI. FDRY (along the base)
bronze
height: 11 ¾ in.
height: 29.8 cm.
Conceived in 1916.
Eric Silver, New York
Acquired from the above circa 1990s by the present owner
Exh. Cat., New York, Macbeth Gallery, The East Side in Sculpture by Abastenia St. L. Eberle, 1921, no. 3a-b, n.p.
Kineton Parkes, Sculpture of To-Day, New York 1921, p. 202, illustration of another cast opposite page 205
"Without Prejudice," The International Studio, vol. LXXIII, issue 288, March 1921, p. V, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, A Group of Small Selected Bronzes by American Sculptures, 1921, no. 7, p. 22
Exh. Cat., San Francisco, National Sculpture Society, Contemporary American Sculpture, 1929, pp. 84 and 86, illustration of another cast
Beatrice Gilman Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Georgetown County, South Carolina 1968, pp. 152-53, another cast mentioned
Exh. Cat., Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle Sculptor (1878-1942), 1980, no. 25, p. 15, illustration of another cast
Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, Texas 1989, p. 32
Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, eds., North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, New York 1995, p. 170
Exh. Cat., New York, Conner Rosenkranz, American Sculpture 1850-1950, pp. 20 and 57, illustration of another cast
Marjorie B. Searl, ed., Seeing America: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 2006, p. 167