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Property from the Wolf Family Collection

Frederick William MacMonnies

Young Faun with Heron

Auction Closed

January 19, 07:25 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Wolf Family Collection

Frederick William MacMonnies

1863 - 1937

Young Faun with Heron


inscribed Frederick MacMonnies / Paris. 1890. (on the base)

bronze

height: 27 ½ in. (69.9 cm.)

Conceived in 1890.

The Medallic Art Company, New York

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 September 1977, lot 34 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Albert TenEyck Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1965, pp. 82-83, illustration of another cast

Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, New York 1968, p. 422

The Detroit Institute of Art, The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World's Fairs 1876-1893, Detroit 1983, no. 79, pp. 158-59, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., The Arts of the American Renaissance, 1985, no. 50, p. 76, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The American Way in Sculpture 1890-1930, 1986, no. 8, p. 18, illustration of another cast

New York, The Equitable Life Assurance Society, The Medallic Art Collection of Bronzes, August - September 1976, no. 61

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1985-90 (on loan)

Denver, Denver Art Museum, 1990-2023 (on loan)