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Sold to Benefit Dickinson College’s Center for the Futures of Native Peoples

Elie Nadelman

Horse

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May 20, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Bid

250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sold to Benefit Dickinson College’s Center for the Futures of Native Peoples

Elie Nadelman

1882 - 1946


Horse

bronze

height: 12 ⅝ in. 32.1 cm.

Conceived circa 1914.

Viola Spiess Flannery Nadelman, New York (the artist's wife)

Lincoln Kirstein, New York (acquired from the above)

The School of American Ballet, New York (probably acquired as a gift from the above in 1986)

Christie’s, New York, 1 December 1989, lot 131 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection

Gerald Peters Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in February 2005 by the present owner

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection, 2015-16, pp. 145-46, illustrated in color; p. 147

Exh. Cat., Phoenix Art Museum, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Phoenix Art Museum Collection, 1965, no. 59-67, pp. 196 and 198, illustration of another cast

Lincoln Kirstein, Elie Nadelman, New York, 1973, no. 181, pl. 55, illustration of another cast; pp. 148 and 305

Exh. Cat., New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Sculpture and Drawings of Elie Nadelman, New York, 1975, no. 42, p. 52, illustration of another cast; p. 55

Exh. Cat., New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life, 2003, p. 75, fig. 82, illustration in color of another cast; p. 85

Lincoln Kirstein, Quarry: A Collection in Lieu of Memoirs, Pasadena, 1986, pp. 42-43, illustrated in color (in situ)

Suzanne Slesin, Over the Top: Helena Rubinstein: Extraordinary Style, Beauty, Art, Fashion, Design, New York, 2003, pp. 50-51, illustration of another cast (in situ)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Kirstein's Modern, 2019, p. 68, illustrated in color (in situ)