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Paul Howard Manship

Flight of Europa

Auction Closed

April 20, 12:24 AM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Paul Howard Manship

1885 - 1966

Flight of Europa



inscribed © MANSHIP (along the base)

bronze

20½ in. (52.1 cm.) high on a 5 in. (12.7 cm.) marble base

Conceived in 1925.

Private Collection
Sotheby Parke-Bernet New York, September 29, 1977, lot 77
Wolf Family Collection No. 0179 (acquired from the above)
Paul Vitry, Paul Manship: Sculpteur Américain, Paris, 1927, pl. 25, n.p., illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Averell House, Sculptures of Paul Manship, 1933, no. 16, p. 11, illustration of another cast
Paul Manship, Paul Manship: American Sculptors Series 2, New York, 1947, p. 15, illustration of another cast
Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, pl. 30, n.p., no. 177, pp. 163-64, illustration of another cast
Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1968, p. 567
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 200 Years of American Sculpture, 1978, fig. 157, p. 124, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Museum of Art, Changing Taste in America, 1985, no. 15, pp. 29-30, illustration of another cast
Harry Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C., 1989, fig. 59, pp. 67-69, illustration of another cast
John Manship, Paul Manship, New York, 1989, no. 99, p. 106, illustration of another cast
Susan Rather, Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship, Austin, 1993, fig. 93, pp. 159-60, illustration of another cast
Denver, Denver Art Museum, 1989-2008 (on loan)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2010-18 (on loan)