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Property of a Lady
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July 26, 05:38 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Lady
FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES
1863 - 1937
PAN OF ROHALLION
inscribed Frederick MacMonnies / Copyright 1894 Paris 1890. / H. Rouard. Fondeur (on the reverse)
bronze with brown patina
height: 30 inches (76.2 cm)
Eric Silver Works of Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1991
Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Houston, Texas, 1989, p. 126
E. Adina Gordon, The Sculpture of Frederick William MacMonnies: A Critical Catalogue, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1998, p. 121
Glenn P. Opitz, Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to the Present, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1894, another example illustrated p. 575
Mary Smart and E. Adina Gordon, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, another example illustrated pp. 92, 288
Pan of Rohallion, the first of a series of fountain figures sculpted by Frederick MacMonnies in the 1890s, was originally designed for the estate of Howard Adams in Seabright, New Jersey. One of the artist's most successful models, it was edited by both French and American foundries in several sizes.