Forging America: The Wolf Family Collection

Forging America: The Wolf Family Collection

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Paul Howard Manship

King Penguin

Auction Closed

April 20, 05:26 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Paul Howard Manship

1885 - 1966

King Penguin



inscribed P·M·© 1932 / A·C· (along the base); stamped PRIESSMAN BAUER & Co., inscribed MUNICH BAVARIA and numbered 2. (along the base)

bronze

10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high on a 1¼ in. (3.2 cm.) lapis lazuli veneered base

Conceived in 1932.

Parke-Bernet 84, New York, May 2, 1978, lot 201

Wolf Family Collection No. 0253 (acquired from the above)

Exh. Cat., New York, Averell House, Sculptures of Paul Manship, 1933, no. 43, p. 20, another cast mentioned
Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, no. 314, p. 178, fig. 9, p. 155, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Museum of Art, Paul Manship: An Intimate View, 1972, no. 75, n.p., illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Museum of Art, Changing Taste in America, 1985, no. 53, p. 81, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Paul Manship and His Circle, 2006, p. 29, illustration of another cast