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Paul Howard Manship

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. 

Private Collection
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, September 29, 1977, lot 69
Wolf Family Collection No. 0178 (acquired from the above)

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.