The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Victory
Auction Closed
April 20, 12:24 AM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1848 - 1907
Victory
inscribed AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS / FECIT M·CM·II and COPYRIGHT BY A H SAINT. GAVDENS. / 1912 (along the base)
gilded bronze
42½ in. (107.8 cm.) high on a 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) marble base
Conceived in 1892; this example cast circa 1912.
We are grateful to Dr. Henry Duffy for his assistance cataloguing this lot.
Phillips New York, June 1, 1983, lot 175
Wolf Family Collection No. 0646 (acquired from the above)
John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, figs. 184-9, p. 256, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Toulouse, France, Musée des Augustins & Blérancourt, Musée franco-américain du Château de Blérancourt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1999, no. 35, pp. 138-39, illustration of another cast
Thayer Tolles, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865, vol. I, New York, 1999, no. 139, pp. 318-20, illustration of another cast
Thayer Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, fig. 47, p. 41, illustration of another cast
New York, New York Historical Society, Artists' Views of Central Park, 1814-1911, 1983-84
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, 1987-2001 (on loan)