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Property from an American Collector

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

Play Days

Auction Closed

May 19, 03:38 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from an American Collector

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

1880 - 1980

Play Days


inscribed Harriet W. Frishmuth © and stamped GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS, QFCJ (along the base)

bronze with dark green patina 

height: 53 inches (134.6 cm)

Modeled in 1924.

The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1994
Charles N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 80, 138-144, illustration of another example
Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 39, 40, illustration of another example
Janis Conner, Leah Rosenblatt Lehmbeck, Thayer Tolles and Frank Hohmann, Captured Motion, The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, pp. 38, 77, 120-125, 248, no. 1924:3, illustration of another example