A New Dimension of Tradition: Important American Folk Art, Proceeds of the Sale to Benefit a New Folk Art Initiative at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A New Dimension of Tradition: Important American Folk Art, Proceeds of the Sale to Benefit a New Folk Art Initiative at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Auction Closed
January 25, 10:08 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
VERY FINE AND RARE AMERICAN CARVED PINE AND SHEET-IRON ACROBAT AND DAPPLE PAINTED HORSE WEATHERVANE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
with a heart cutout in banner.
Height 32 in. by Length 48 in.
Central Wisconsin Farm Estate Sale, 1979-80;
Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York;
Private Collection;
Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts.
Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco, American Primitive, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), p. 119, fig. 158.
This complex homemade weathervane combines different materials and formal elements into a unique and highly imaginative composition. Its unknown maker may have been inspired by seeing a circus acrobat balancing on the back of a galloping horse.