America Without Reserve: The Wolf Family Collection
America Without Reserve: The Wolf Family Collection
Gutzon Borglum
John Ruskin
No reserve
Lot Closed
April 24, 06:01 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Gutzon Borglum
1867 - 1941
John Ruskin
inscribed Gutzon Borglum / 1903. (on the base); inscribed copyrighted 1903 by / Gutzon. Borglum. and stamped 2 (along the base); inscribed Roman Bronze Works N.Y. 1903 (along the base)
bronze
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
Conceived in 1903.
Rogers Fund (acquired in 1906)
Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, April 17, 1975, lot 80
Wolf Family Collection No. 0043 (acquired from the above)
Albert TenEyck Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of The Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965, p. 102, illustrated
Thayer Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I, New York, 1999, no. 222, pp. 498-500, illustrated
Between 1893 and 1895, Gutzon Borglum traveled to England and took up residence in London until his return to the United States in 1902. It was during this period that Borglum had the occasion to meet the aging John Ruskin and described him as "the most marvelous, magnificent, unappreciated genius the world has ever known."