America Without Reserve: The Wolf Family Collection
America Without Reserve: The Wolf Family Collection
Mahonri Mackintosh Young
Breton Peasant Woman with Bread Basket
No reserve
Lot Closed
April 24, 06:07 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Mahonri Mackintosh Young
1877 - 1957
Breton Peasant Woman with Bread Basket
inscribed MAHONRI and stamped with the artist's fingerprint (on the base); stamped with the Valsuani foundry mark (along the base)
bronze
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high
Conceived circa 1924-26.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, September 29, 1977, lot 59
Wolf Family Collection No. 0177 (acquired from the above)
Exh. Cat., Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, Mahonri M. Young: Retrospective Exhibition, 1940, no. 14 (as part of The Gossips)
Thomas E. Toone, Mahonri Young: His Life and Art, Washington, D.C., 1997, p. 130, illustration of another cast (as part of The Gossips)
Norma Davis, The Song of Joys: The Biography of Mahonri Mackintosh Young: Sculptor, Painter, Etcher, Provo, Utah, 1999, p. 168, illustration of another cast (as Porteuse du Pain)