
Europa and the Bull
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April 20, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Paul Howard Manship
1885 - 1966
Europa and the Bull
inscribed P·Manship· / ©·1924· (on the reverse)
bronze
9¼ in. (22.1 cm.) high on a 1½ in. (3.1 cm.) marble base
Conceived in 1924.
Paul Vitry, Paul Manship: Sculpteur Américain, Paris, 1927, pl. 24, n.p., illustration of another cast
Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, no. 169, p. 163, pl. 31, n.p., illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture, 1810-1940, 1982, no. 57, p. 91, illustration of another cast
Harry Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 65, illustration of another cast
John Manship, Paul Manship, New York, 1989, nos. 95-96, p. 105, illustrations of another cast
Janis Conner & Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, 1989, pp. 136, 140, illustration of another cast
Susan Rather, Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship, Austin, 1993, fig. 92, p. 158, illustration of another cast
Thayer Tolles, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885, vol. II, New York, 1999, no. 383, pp. 762-63, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Paul Manship and His Circle, 2006, p. 19, illustration of another cast
This highly stylized yet intricately detailed bronze depicts a Greek myth in which the Phoenician princess Europa has been abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull. Paul Howard Manship often found artistic inspiration in mythology, returning many times to this particular story.
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