AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS (1848-1907)

Lot 335
19.01.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 335 | AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS (1848-1907)
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$ 25 000 – 35 000
AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS (1848-1907)

Head of Lincoln

inscribed 'AVGVSTVS SAINT. GAVDENS/©' (along the left shoulder)—inscribed 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (along the back)

bronze with blackish-brown patina

16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm.) high on a 50 in. (127 cm.) high stone base

Modeled in 1887; cast circa 1923.





Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Blum.

Private collection, Illinois.

By descent to the present owner.



Literature

American Magazine of Art, vol. 20, April 1929, p. 223.

J.H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 161-62, no. 124-6, another example illustrated.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor, from the Collection of the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Washington, D.C., 1992, n.p., no. 20, another example illustrated.

T. Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 24, fig. 25, another example illustrated.
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