Two Centuries: American Art

Two Centuries: American Art

Property from a Pennsylvania Collection

Adolph Alexander Weinman

Descending Night

Lot Closed

October 6, 06:56 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Pennsylvania Collection

Adolph Alexander Weinman

1870 - 1952

Descending Night



inscribed A.A.WEINMAN FECIT and ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y- (along the base); also numbered No 14 (beneath the base) 

bronze with greenish-brown patina

height: 26 ¼ inches (66.7 cm)

Modeled circa 1914; cast by 1917.

Macklowe Gallery, Ltd., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1979
Daniel Robbins, "Statues to Sculpture: From the Nineties to the Thirties," 200 Years of American Sculpture, New York, 1976, p. 115, no. 151, another example illustrated
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