Property from the Wolf Family Collection
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Portrait Relief of Robert Louis Stevenson
Auction Closed
January 19, 07:25 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Wolf Family Collection
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1848 - 1907
Portrait Relief of Robert Louis Stevenson
inscribed AVGVSTVS / SAINT-GAVDENS (upper right); inscribed TO ROBERT-LOVIS / STEVENSON / M·D·C·C·C·LXXXVII (upper left)
bronze on Tiffany wood base
18 ¾ by 16 ⅝ in.
47.6 by 42.2 cm.
The Medallic Art Company, New York
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 September 1977, lot 20 (consigned by the above)
Graham Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above on 7 December 1978 by the present owner
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1985-86 (on loan)
Denver, Denver Art Museum, 1990-2023 (on loan)
John Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire 1982, no. 133, p. 176
Exh. Cat., Musée de Augustins (and traveling), Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907 : A Master of American Sculpture, 1999, no. 67, p. 165, illustration of another cast