FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937)

Lot 326
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1539485
Lot 326 | FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937)
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937)
Pan of Rohallion
stamped 'TO PAN OF ROHALLION ANNO DOMINI MDCCLXL' (along the base)—inscribed 'Frederick MacMonnies/copyright 1894 Paris 1890' and stamped with foundry mark 'E. GRUET/JEUNE/FONDEUR/44 BIS AVENUE DE CHATILLON·PARIS·' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
30 in. (76.2 cm.) high
Modeled in 1890.




Provenance

Eric Silver Works of Art, Great Neck, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1989.



Literature

The Critic, July 3, 1897, p. 1.
L. Taft, The History of American Sculpture, London, 1902, p. 341.
C.H. Caffin, American Masters of Sculpture, Garden City, New York, 1913, p. 75.
Brooklyn Museum, The American Renaissance, 1876-1917, exhibition catalogue, Brooklyn, New York, 1979, p. 226, no. 248, another example illustrated.
Newark Museum, American Sculpture in the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, 1981, p. 413, another example referenced.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture, 1810-1940, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1982, pp. 64-65, another example illustrated.
G.B. Opitz, ed., Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to the Present, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1984, p. 575, another example illustrated.
The Parrish Art Museum, Fauns and Fountains: American Garden Statuary, 1890-1930, exhibition catalogue, Southampton, New York, 1985, n.p., no. 17, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, p. 126.
M. Smart, E.A. Gordon, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist's Works, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, pp. 92, 288, no. 22, other examples illustrated.
R. Gabrielan, Images of America, vol. II, Charleston, South Carolina, 1997, p. 51, another example illustrated.
T. Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born before 1865, vol. I, New York, 1999, pp. 428, 431, another example referenced.
T.A. Eaton, ed., From Neo-Classical and Beaux-Arts to Modernism: A Passage in American Sculpture, Riviera Beach, Florida, 2000, pp. 20-21, another example illustrated.
J.P. O'Neill, ed., A Walk Through the American Wing, New York, 2001, p. 6, another example illustrated.
D.B. Dearinger, ed., Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925, vol. I, New York, 2004, p. 389.
J. Shrock, The Gilded Age, Westport, Connecticut, 2004, p. 258.
R.G. Wilson, Edith Wharton at Home: Life at The Mount, New York, 2012, p. 62, another example illustrated.
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