AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS (1848-1907)

Lot 327
23.01.2025 10:00UTC +00:00
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$ 138 600
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Lot 327 | AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS (1848-1907)
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$ 80 000 – 120 000
AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS (1848-1907)
The Puritan
stamped '·THE·PVRITAN·' (along the front of the base)—inscribed 'AVGVTVS SAINT GAVDENS' (on the base)—inscribed with foundry mark 'AUBRY BRO'S FOUNDERS NY' (along the base)—stamped '·COPYRIGHT BY·/AVGVSTVS SAINT-GAVDENS·/·MDCCCXCIX· (on the rear of the base)
bronze with greenish brown patina
30 ¼ in. (76.8 cm.) high
Modeled in 1886.




Provenance

Elizabeth Braun Ernst, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Winchester Thurston School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 2003, lot 183, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

W. Craven, Sculpture in America, Cranbury, New Jersey, 1968, pp. 384-85, another example referenced.
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, 1968, pp. 9-11, another example illustrated.
T. Armstrong, et al., 200 Years of American Sculpture, New York, 1976, pp. 51, 81, pl. 18, another example illustrated.
J.H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 162-66, other examples illustrated.
M. Evert, Discovering Pittsburgh’s Sculpture, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1983, pp. 293-94, another example illustrated.
K. Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, p. 174, another example referenced.
K. Greenthal, et al., American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986, pp. 238-42, no. 74, another example illustrated.
M.A. Goley, B. Wilkinson, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor, From the Collection of the Saint-Gaudens Historic Site, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1992, pp. IV, VIII, no. 24, another example referenced.
T. Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I, New York, 1999, pp. 285-88, no. 123, another example illustrated.
H.J. Duffy, J.H. Dryfhout, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 2003, p. 75, no. 39, another example illustrated.
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