Building America: The Wolf Family Collection

Building America: The Wolf Family Collection

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Augustus Saint-Gaudens

The Puritan

Auction Closed

April 21, 08:50 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

1848 - 1907

The Puritan


inscribed ·THE·PVRITAN· (along the base); inscribed AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS, stamped 1303 and COPYRIGHT BY / AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS / M·D·C·C·C·X·C·I·X· (on the base)

bronze

30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high

Conceived in 1886; this example cast in or after 1899.


We are grateful to Dr. Henry Duffy for his assistance cataloguing this lot.

Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, New York
Estate of the above
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 31, 1975, lot 1 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0027 (acquired from the above)

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Bicentennial Exhibition: 200 Years of American Sculpture, 1976, pl. 18, p. 81, illustration of another cast

John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, fig. 125-11, p. 164, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture, 1810-1940, 1982, no. 22, pp. 46-47, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Cast in the Shadow: Models for Public Sculpture in America, 1985-86, no. 26, pp. 64-66, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board Building, Augustus Saint-Gaudens American Sculptor: From the Collection of the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, 1992, no. 24, p. VIII

Exh. Cat., Toulouse, France, Musée des Augustins & Blérancourt, Musée franco-américain du Château de Blérancourt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: A Master of American Sculpture, 1999, no. 18, p. 119, illustration of another cast

Thayer Tolles, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I, New York, 1999, no. 123, pp. 285-87, illustration of another cast

Thayer Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, no. 27, pp. 68-69, illustration of another cast

Henry Duffy, ed., In Homage to Worthy Ancestors: The Puritan, The Pilgrim, Warner, New Hampshire, 2011

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Wing, 2003-23 (on loan)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009