Lot 67
  • 67

Paul Manship 1885 - 1966

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Manship
  • Playfulness
  • inscribed Paul Manship/Roma 1912 with the Roman Bronze Works N-Y- foundry mark
  • bronze
  • 13 by 12 1/2 inches
  • (33 by 31.8 cm)

Provenance

Gifford and Cornelia Pinchot, Guilford, Connecticut
West Hartford, Connecticut Estate (by descent from the above; sold: Nadeau's, Windsor, Connecticut, October 2, 1993, lot 1)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Literature

Paul Vitry, Paul Manship: Sculpteur Américain. Paris, France, 1927, p. 35, illustration of another example pl. 5
Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, pp. 11, 150, illustration of another example no. 21, pl. 6
M.J. Czarniecki III, Gloria Kittleson et al., Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1985, illustration of another example p. 24
John Manship, Paul Manship, New York, 1989, pp. 36-37, 45, 48, 52-53, illustration of another example fig. 28, p. 40
Harry Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C., and London, England, 1989, pp. 29, 32, illustration of another example fig. 20, p. 33
Susan Rather, Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship, Austin, Texas, 1993, pp. 85, 92, illustration of another example fig. 49, p. 93

Catalogue Note

The present work is one in an edition of 15.