ANNA VAUGHN HYATT HUNTINGTON (1876-1973)

Lot 349
23.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 349 | ANNA VAUGHN HYATT HUNTINGTON (1876-1973)
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$ 10 000 – 15 000
ANNA VAUGHN HYATT HUNTINGTON (1876-1973)
Yawning Tiger
inscribed 'Anna V. Hyatt' (along the right hind leg)—numbered '40' and stamped with foundry mark 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS/Q509' (along the left hind leg)
bronze with reddish brown patina
8 ½ in. (21.6 cm.) high
Modeled circa 1917; cast by 1945.




Provenance

(Probably) DeLorenzo Gallery, New York.
(Probably) Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1989.



Literature

The Gorham Company, Famous Small Bronzes, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1928, p. 15, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 76, 78n9, 192, another example illustrated.
The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902-1936, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2014, pp. 12, 25, 33, no. 2, another example illustrated.
L. Blackman, ed., Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection, Columbia, South Carolina, 2018, pp. 94, 95, another example illustrated.



Further details

The Gorham Foundry produced Yawning Tiger in two sizes: a 13 1/4 inch version in an edition of 359 and the present 28 inch-long scale in an edition of 118.
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