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Property from the Wolf Family Collection

Bessie Potter Vonnoh

La Petite

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September 30, 06:30 PM GMT

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Description

Property from the Wolf Family Collection

Bessie Potter Vonnoh

1872 - 1955


La Petite

inscribed Bessie Potter Vonnoh and numbered No. VI (on the base); inscribed ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y- (along the base)

bronze

height: 7 ½ in. 19.1 cm.

Conceived circa 1902; this example cast circa 1921.

Richard Maynard, New York (acquired directly from the artist in December 1921)

Plaza Art Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in October 1978 by the present owner

Rilla Evelyn Jackman, American Arts, New York, 1928, pl. CCX, illustration of another cast

Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions, Boston, 1990, p. 114

Exh. Cat., Old Lyme, Connecticut, Florence Griswold Museum; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and Cincinnati Art Museum, Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women, 2008-09, p. 184