Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Portrait Relief of Robert Louis Stevenson
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April 20, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1848 - 1907
Portrait Relief of Robert Louis Stevenson
inscribed AVGVSTVS / SAINT-GAVDENS (upper right); inscribed COPYRIGHT BY AVGVSTVS SAINT-GAVDENS (lower center); inscribed TO ROBERT-LOVIS / STEVENSON and dated M·D·C·C·G·LXXXVII (upper left)
bronze
17¾ x 17¼ in. (45.1 x 43.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1887; this example cast after 1898.
We are grateful to Dr. Henry Duffy for his assistance cataloguing this lot.
Wolf Family Collection No. 0335 (acquired from the above)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978-n.d. (on loan)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2008-23(on loan)
John Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 174-76, other examples mentioned
Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture, 1810-1940, 1982, no. 23, pp. 48-49, illustration of another example
Exh. Cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art & Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor, 1985-86, pp. 119-20, other examples mentioned
Thayer Tolles, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865, vol. I, New York, 1999, nos. 124-25, pp. 188-92, illustrations of other examples
Thayer Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, pp. 29, 69, 70, illustrations of other examples
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