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Sculpture from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk

Paul Manship

Lyric Muse

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sculpture from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk

Paul Manship

1885 - 1966


Lyric Muse

inscribed Paul Manship / © Rome 1912 (on the base); inscribed ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y. (along the base)

bronze

height: 11¾ in.

29.8 cm.

Conceived in 1912. 

William Welles Bosworth, Boston
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie's New York, 16 May 2012, lot 15 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paul Vitry, Paul Manship: Sculpteur Americain, Paris 1927, pl. 4, n.p., another example illustrated
Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York 1957, pl. 4, no. 19, p. 150, another example illustrated
Exh. Cat., St. Paul, Minnesota Museum of Art, Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America, 1985, no. 9, pp. 18-19, another example illustrated
John Manship, Paul Manship, New York 1989, pl. 26, no. 15, pp. 37, 38, 45, another example illustrated 
Harry Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C. 1989, fig. 14, pp. 26-27, 29, 32, 65, another example illustrated
Susan Rather, Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship, Austin 1993, p. 85, another example mentioned
Exh. Cat., New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Paul Manship and His Circle, 2006, p. 12, another example illustrated
This sculpture is one of an edition of fifteen produced under the direction of Manship. Other examples reside in prominent institutional collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cincinnati Art Museum; The Detroit Institute of Arts; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.