
The Puritan
Live auction begins on:
January 24, 05:00 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Bid
130,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1848 - 1907
The Puritan
inscribed AVGVSTVS·SAINTGAVDENS and COPYRIGHT BY AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS M·D·C·C·C·X·C·I·X· (on the base); titled (along the base)
bronze
height: 30 ¾. 78 cm.
Conceived in 1886.
We are grateful to Dr. Henry Duffy for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Roy D. Chapin, Grosse Point Farms, Michigan (acquired by 1932)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Augusta Owen Patterson, "Mr. Roy D. Chapin's Home Near Detroit", Town & Country, 15 March 1932, p. 32, illustrated (in photograph of Roy D. Chapin's home)
Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1968, pp. 384-85, another cast mentioned
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 200 Years of American Sculpture, 1976, pl. 18, pp. 51 and 81, another cast illustrated
John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 164 and 166, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture, 1810-1940, 1982, no. 22, pp.
46-47, another cast illustrated
Burke Wilkinson, Uncommon Clay: The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gaudens, San Diego, New York and London, 1985,
pp. 171-72, another cast mentioned
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor, 1985-86, p. 174, another cast mentioned
Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Cast in the Shadow: Models for Public Sculpture in America, 1985-86, no. 26, pp. 64-66, another cast illustrated
Kathryn Greenthal, Paula M. Kozol and Jan Seidler Ramirez, American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, 1986, no. 74, pp. 238-42, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board Building, Augustus Saint-Gaudens American Sculptor: From the Collection of the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, 1992, no. 24, p. VIII, another cast mentioned
Thayer Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I, New York, 1999, no. 123, pp. 285-88, another cast illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Toulouse, Musée des Augustins and Musée national de la Coopération franco-américaine, Château de Blérancourt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: A Master of American Sculpture, 1999, no. 18, pp. 118-19, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009, no. 27, p. 69, another cast illustrated
Henry Duffy, ed., In Homage to Worthy Ancestors: The Puritan, The Pilgrim, Warner, New Hampshire, 2011, another cast mentioned
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