Lot 118
  • 118

Wheeler Williams

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Wheeler Williams
  • Calliope
  • Aba stone
  • Height: 20 1/2 in.
  • 52 cm.

Provenance

Private Collection, New York

Literature

Wheeler Williams:  American Sculptors Series #1, New York, 1947, p. 15 illustrated (another example)

Condition

in good condition, generally; wear to the sides of the base
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Catalogue Note

Calliope was one of a pair of sculptures Williams created in 1936 for a sculpture garden in London.  The pendant, also a figure playing a lyre, was entitled Euterpe, both referring to the nine muses of Greek mythology.  Similar to the present lot, the medium of each was aba stone, a type of cast stone invented by the artist.  Both works were destroyed by bombs during World War II.