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Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Head of Victory

Auction Closed

April 20, 07:56 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

1848 - 1907

Head of Victory


inscribed NIKH-EIPHNH and stamped GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS (along the base); inscribed A.ST.GAVDENS ASPET MCMI (under the head)

bronze

8 in. (20.3 cm.) high on a 4½ in. (11.4 cm.) marble base

Conceived in 1902-03.


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

Christie's New York, October 24, 1979, lot 128
Wolf Family Collection No. 0410 (acquired from the above)

Lewis C. Hind, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New York, 1908

Homer Saint-Gaudens, ed., The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New York, vol. II, 1913, pp. 290-91

Buckner Hollingsworth, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New York, 1948, p. 50, illustration of another example

Albert TenEyck Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965, pp. 54-55

John Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 257-258, no. 185, p. 257, illustrations of other examples

Kathryn Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor, Boston, 1985, pp. 32, 175, illustration of another example

Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Cast in the Shadow: Models for Public Sculpture in America, 1985, no. 30, pp. 68-71, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., The Arts of the American Renaissance, 1985, no. 67, p. 100, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Philadelphia, Port of History Museum Penn and Drexel University Museum, The National Sculpture Society Celebrates the Figure, 1987, p. 76

John H. Dryfhout, Henry Duffy, Gregory C. Schwarz et al., Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907: A Master of American Sculpture, Boston, 1999, p. 138, illustration of another example

Thayer Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999, no. 137, pp. 321-22, illustration of another example

Thayer Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven, 2009, fig. 63, p. 53, illustration of another example

New York, New York Historical Society, Artist's Views of Central Park: 1814-1914, 1983-84
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2008-18 (on loan)