American Art Online
American Art Online
Lot Closed
March 5, 08:30 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
PAUL MANSHIP
1885 - 1966
PLAYFULNESS
inscribed PAUL MANSHIP / ©. ROME and dated 1912. (on the base); also inscribed ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y- (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
height: 12 ¾ inches (32.4 cm) on a 1 inch (2.5 cm) marble base
Private collection, New York, circa 1940s
By descent to the present owner
Paul Vitry, Paul Manship: Sculpteur Américain, Paris, France, 1927, p. 35, illustration of another example pl. 5
Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, pp. 11, 150, illustration of another example no. 21, pl. 6
M.J. Czarniecki III, Gloria Kittleson et al., Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1985, illustration of another example p. 24
John Manship, Paul Manship, New York, 1989, pp. 36-37, 45, 48, 52-53, illustration of another example fig. 28, p. 40
Harry Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C., and London, England, 1989, pp. 29, 32, illustration of another example fig. 20, p. 33
Susan Rather, Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship, Austin, Texas, 1993, pp. 85, 92, illustration of another example fig. 49, p. 93
The present work is one in an edition of 15.