Modern Day Auction

Modern Day Auction

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Property from a Private Collection

Carl Milles

The Flying Horse

Session begins in

November 19, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Bid

45,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Carl Milles

1875 - 1955


The Flying Horse

inscribed Carl Milles, stamped with the foundry mark Gunnar Petterson Fud. and numbered 5/12 (along the base)

bronze

height (including marble base): 24 in. 61 cm.

Conceived in 1923.

Auktionsverk, Stockholm, 8 June 2016, lot 2094

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Meyric R. Rogers, Carl Milles: An Interpretation of His Work, London, 1940, no. 57, p. 65 (titled Leaping Horse)

Henrik Cornell, Carl Milles: hans verk, Stockholm, 1963, pp. 41-42, illustration of another cast

Erik Näslund, Carl Milles - en biografi, Höganäs, 1991, pp. 164-166