ID 883572
Lot 335 | AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS (1848-1907)
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 35 000
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.
| Artist: | Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848 - 1907) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Artist: | Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848 - 1907) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Address of auction |
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