Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
Horatio Greenough
Bust of George Washington
Auction Closed
April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Horatio Greenough
1805 - 1852
Bust of George Washington
marble
19 in. (48.3 cm.) high on a 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) marble socle
Executed circa 1832.
Christie's New York, January 17, 2003, lot 479
Wolf Family Collection No. 1194 (acquired from the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 1194 (acquired from the above)
Thayer Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I, New York, 1999, no. 1, p. 4, illustration of a similar example
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2008-23 (on loan)