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Paul Howard Manship

Dancer and Gazelles

Auction Closed

April 20, 12:24 AM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Paul Howard Manship

1885 - 1966

Dancer and Gazelles



inscribed Paul Manship / © 1916 (on the base); inscribed ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y- (along the base)

bronze

32 ½ in. (82.6 cm.) high

Conceived in 1916.

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
Amory S. Carhart, New York (acquired by descent from the above)
William Doyle Galleries, New York, April 24, 1985, lot 174 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0800 (acquired from the above)
A.E. Gallatin, Paul Manship: A Critical Essay on his Sculpture and an Iconography, New York, 1917, pp. 2, 5, 15
Paul Vitry, Paul Manship: Sculpteur Américain, Paris, 1927, pl. 12, n.p., p. 39, illustration of another cast
Paul Manship, Paul Manship: American Sculptors Series 2, New York, 1947, p. 9, illustration of another cast
Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, no. 85, p. 158, pl. 12, n.p., illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Museum of Art, Paul Manship: An Intimate View, 1972, p. 4, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Museum of Art, Changing Taste in America, 1985, no. 40, pp. 62-63, 71, illustration of another cast
Marshall B. Davidson & Elizabeth Stillinger, The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, fig. 521, pp. 345-46, illustration of another cast
John Manship, Paul Manship, New York, 1989, pl. 65, pp. 76-77, illustration of another cast
Harry Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C., 1989, fig. 34, pp. 44-48, illustration of another cast
Janis Conner & Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, 1989, p. 137, illustration of another cast
Susan Rather, Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship, Austin, 1993, fig. 60, pp. 117-121, 128, 161, 175, 216n86, illustration of another cast
Thayer Tolles, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885, vol. II, New York, 1999, no. 382, pp. 760-61, illustration of another cast