Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property from the Wolf Family Collection
Flight of Europa
Auction Closed
November 14, 11:00 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Wolf Family Collection
Paul Manship
1885 - 1966
Flight of Europa
inscribed P. MANSHIP (on the dolphin)
gilded bronze
height: 20½ in. on a 5 in. marble base
52.1 cm. on a 12.7 cm. marble base
Conceived in 1925.
Private Collection
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 27 October 1978, lot 104
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paul Vitry, Paul Manship: Sculpteur Américain, Paris 1927, no. 25, p. 46, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Averell House, Sculptures of Paul Manship, 1933, no. 16, p. 11, illustration of another cast
Paul Manship, Paul Manship: American Sculptors Series, vol. II, New York 1947, p. 15, illustration of another cast
Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York 1957, no. 177, pp. 163-64, illustration of another cast
Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, New York 1968, p. 567
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 200 Years of American Sculpture, 1978, no. 157, p. 124, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Museum of Art, Changing Taste in America, 1985, no. 15, pp. 29-30, illustration of another cast
Harry Rand, Paul Manship, Washington D.C. 1989, no. 59, pp. 67-69, illustration of another cast
John Manship, Paul Manship, New York 1989, no. 99, p. 106, illustration of another cast
Susan Rather, Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship, Austin 1993, no. 93, pp. 159-60, illustration of another cast
Carol Lowrey, A Legacy of Art: Paintings and Sculptures by Artist Life Members of the National Arts Club, New York 2007, p. 146
Elizabeth L. O'Leary, Sylvia Yount, Susan Jensen Rawles, and David Park Curry, American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond 2010, no. 117, pp. 347-348, illustrated in color
Peter H. Gommers, Europe~What's in a Name, Leuven, Belgium 2001, p. 66, illustrated in color
Robert Silberman, "Thoroughly Modern Manship," Art in America, vol. 74, issue 1, January 1986, pp. 111-114, illustrated
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1985-86 (on loan)
Denver, Denver Art Museum, 1989-2007 (on loan)