Lot 103
  • 103

Frederick William MacMonnies

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • Frederick William MacMonnies
  • Bacchante with Infant Faun
  • inscribed F. MacMonnies, stamped with the Roman Bronze Works N-Y- foundry mark, and dated 1894
  • bronze, dark green and brown patina
  • height: 33 1/8 inches
  • (84.2 cm)

Provenance

Private Collection, Maryland, by 1931
By descent from the above to the present owner

Literature

E. Adina Gordon, Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937), Mary Fairchild Macmonnies (1858-1946), deux artistes américains à Giverny, exhibition catalogue, Vernon, France, pp. 44-47, another example illustrated
E. Adina Gordon and Mary Smart, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies, 1863-1937, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, p. 292, another example illustrated
E. Adina Gordon, The Sculpture of Frederick William MacMonnies: A Critical Catalogue, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1998, no. 30.2, another example illustrated
Thayer Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865, vol. I, New York, 1999, p. 436, another example illustrated

Condition

Work is in generally good condition aside from a pin-sized hole on the hand at the grapes, scattered minor white paint flecks, surface dirt, and a few scatted areas of pitting.
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