Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
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.
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