America Without Reserve: The Wolf Family Collection
America Without Reserve: The Wolf Family Collection
Edward Kemeys
Playing Possum
No reserve
Lot Closed
April 24, 07:14 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Edward Kemeys
1843 - 1907
Playing Possum
inscribed Edwd Kemeys. / 1874. and Playing Possum (along the base); stamped 924 (along the base)
bronze
13¼ in. (33.7 cm.) high
Conceived in 1874.
The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Christie's New York, May 30, 1986, lot 133 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0844 (acquired from the above)
Michael Richman, Edward Kemeys, 1843-1907: America's First Animal Sculptor, Middleburg, Virginia, 1972
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988 (on loan)