Lot 103
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HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH | Play Days

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
  • Play Days
  • inscribed HARRIET W FRISHMUTH © 1925 and stamped with the GORHAM CO FOUNDERS QFED foundry mark
  • bronze
  • height: 22 1/4 inches (56.5 cm)
  • Modeled in 1925.

Provenance

Private collection, California, circa 1930s
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2009

Literature

Charles N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 79, 138-44, 210, illustration of another example
Janis Conner, Frank Hohmann, Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, Thayer Tolles et al, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, no. 1925:3, pp. 38, 77, 174, 249, illustration of another example

Condition

The patina is verdigris. There is a scuff on her right calf, a scratch on her back, a few scuffs and a scratch on her left thigh. There is an area of possible minor pitting on her right hand. There are 99 known castings in the edition of this sculpture - 6 Roman Bronze Works and 93 Gorham, one of which is the present work.
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