Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Puritan
Auction Closed
April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1848 - 1907
The Puritan
inscribed ·THE·PVRITAN· (along the base); inscribed AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS, stamped 1303 and COPYRIGHT BY / AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS / M·D·C·C·C·X·C·I·X· (on the base)
bronze
30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1886; this example cast in or after 1899.
We are grateful to Dr. Henry Duffy for his assistance cataloguing this lot.
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Bicentennial Exhibition: 200 Years of American Sculpture, 1976, pl. 18, p. 81, illustration of another cast
John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, fig. 125-11, p. 164, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture, 1810-1940, 1982, no. 22, pp. 46-47, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Cast in the Shadow: Models for Public Sculpture in America, 1985-86, no. 26, pp. 64-66, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board Building, Augustus Saint-Gaudens American Sculptor: From the Collection of the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, 1992, no. 24, p. VIII
Exh. Cat., Toulouse, France, Musée des Augustins & Blérancourt, Musée franco-américain du Château de Blérancourt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: A Master of American Sculpture, 1999, no. 18, p. 119, illustration of another cast
Thayer Tolles, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I, New York, 1999, no. 123, pp. 285-87, illustration of another cast
Thayer Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, no. 27, pp. 68-69, illustration of another cast
Henry Duffy, ed., In Homage to Worthy Ancestors: The Puritan, The Pilgrim, Warner, New Hampshire, 2011
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Wing, 2003-23 (on loan)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009