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

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1473. VERY FINE AND RARE AMERICAN CARVED PINE AND SHEET-IRON ACROBAT AND DAPPLE PAINTED HORSE WEATHERVANE, LATE 19TH CENTURY.

VERY FINE AND RARE AMERICAN CARVED PINE AND SHEET-IRON ACROBAT AND DAPPLE PAINTED HORSE WEATHERVANE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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.