Forging America: The Wolf Family Collection
Forging America: The Wolf Family Collection
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Diana of the Tower
Auction Closed
April 20, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1848 - 1907
Diana of the Tower
inscribed AUBRY-BROS-CO. / FOUNDERS. N.Y. (along the base)
bronze
39½ in. (100.3 cm.) high overall; 31 in. (78.7 cm.) version
Conceived in 1886; this example cast circa 1895.
We are grateful to Dr. Henry Duffy for his assistance cataloguing this lot.
Stanford White (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1895)
Walker Cain Associates (formerly McKim, Mead and White), New York
Christie's New York, June 1, 1984, lot 69
Wolf Family Collection No. 0724 (acquired from the above)
John Dryfhout, Diana: Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975, pp. 201-213
John Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, no. 121, 144, 154, pp. 155, 194, 205-210, illustrations of other casts
Exh. Cat., Cast in the Shadow: Models for Public Sculpture in America, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1985, fig. 23, pp. 61-62, illustration of another cast
New York, Cooper Union, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1984
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1985-86, p. 174