Modern Discoveries
Modern Discoveries
Property from an Important American Collector
Joy of the Waters
Lot closes
October 1, 04:23 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Starting Bid
20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important American Collector
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
1880-1980
Joy of the Waters
inscribed Harriet W. Frishmuth Sc. 1912 and Roman Bronze Works, Inc N.Y. (on the base)
bronze
height: 61 in.
154.9 cm.
Modeled in 1917.
The present work is one of 44 total editions cast between 1920 and 1971, only 12 of which were cast by Roman Bronze Works.
Private Collection, San Marino, California
Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 16 February 1984, lot 222 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's New York, 23 May 2007, lot 116 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Beatrice Gilman Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1968, p. 224
Charles N. Aronson, Sculpted Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 26, 107-109, 206, another example illustrated
Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 37, 410-41, another example illustrated
Charles H. Charpenter, Gorham Silver: 1831 - 1981, New York, 1982, no. 149, pp. 155-156, another example illustrated
Dick Kagan, "Sentinels of the Garden," Art at Auction, April 1996, p. 67
Janis Conner, Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, and Thayer Tolles, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, no. 1917:3, pp. 28, 66, 86, 200, 236, 277, 278, another example illustrated
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