A MOLDED ZINC POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A `SITTING INDIAN`

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Los 464 | A MOLDED ZINC POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'SITTING INDIAN'
A MOLDED ZINC POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'SITTING INDIAN'

WILLIAM DEMUTH (1835-1911), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1875

plaque stamped W.DEMUTH&Co./ MANUFRS. 507 BROADWAY.NEWYORK; repainted

31 in. high, 30 in. wide, 14 in. deep







Provenance

Mrs. John Law Robertson

Adele Earnest, Stony Point, New York

Stewart E. Gregory, Wilton, Connecticut

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 27 January 1979, lot 235





Literature

A.W. Pendergast and W. Porter Ware, Cigar Store Figures (Sewanee, 1953), p. 75.

Frederick Fried, Artists in Wood: American Carvers of Cigar-Store Indians, Show Figures, and Circus Wagons (New York, 1970), p. 58.

Robert Bishop, American Folk Sculpture (New York, 1974), p. 260, no. 484.





Exhibited

New York, The Museum of American Folk Art, An Eye on America, 13 March-14 May 1972, p. 9, no. 45.

Albany, New York State Museum of the Empire State, New York - The State of Art, 8 October-28 November, 1977.





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