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Sculpture from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk

Abastenia St. Leger Eberle

Yetta and The Cat Wake Up

Lot Closed

July 20, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sculpture from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk

Abastenia St. Leger Eberle

1878 - 1942

Yetta and the Cat Wake Up


inscribed A St L. Eberle. / 1916 (on the base); stamped E. GARGANI. FDRY (along the base)

bronze

height: 11 ¾ in.

height: 29.8 cm.

Conceived in 1916.

Eric Silver, New York

Acquired from the above circa 1990s by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Macbeth Gallery, The East Side in Sculpture by Abastenia St. L. Eberle, 1921, no. 3a-b, n.p.

Kineton Parkes, Sculpture of To-Day, New York 1921, p. 202, illustration of another cast opposite page 205

"Without Prejudice," The International Studio, vol. LXXIII, issue 288, March 1921, p. V, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, A Group of Small Selected Bronzes by American Sculptures, 1921, no. 7, p. 22

Exh. Cat., San Francisco, National Sculpture Society, Contemporary American Sculpture, 1929, pp. 84 and 86, illustration of another cast

Beatrice Gilman Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Georgetown County, South Carolina 1968, pp. 152-53, another cast mentioned

Exh. Cat., Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle Sculptor (1878-1942), 1980, no. 25, p. 15, illustration of another cast

Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, Texas 1989, p. 32

Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, eds., North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, New York 1995, p. 170

Exh. Cat., New York, Conner Rosenkranz, American Sculpture 1850-1950, pp. 20 and 57, illustration of another cast

Marjorie B. Searl, ed., Seeing America: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 2006, p. 167