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HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH | THE STAR

Lot Closed

March 5, 08:27 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

HARRIET WHITNEY FRISHMUTH

1880 - 1980

THE STAR


stamped © and inscribed HARRIET W FRISHMUTH 1918 (on the base); also stamped GORHAM CO FOUNDERS / Q505 and inscribed #319 (along the base)

bronze with verdigris patina

height: 19 ½ inches (49.5 cm) on a ¾ inch (1.9 cm) marble base

Private collection, Ohio

Estate of the above

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Janis Conner, Frank Hohmann, Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, and Thayer Tolles, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, no. 1918:3, pp. 20, 30-1, 66-7, 80, 99, 106, 143-45, 148, 220, 237, another example illustrated

The Star was cast by Gorham Co. Founders in an edition of 345 between 1920 and 1955.