Diana of the Tower
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April 20, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1848 - 1907
Diana of the Tower
inscribed AUBRY-BROS-CO. / FOUNDERS. N.Y. (along the base)
bronze
39½ in. (100.3 cm.) high overall;෴ 31 in. (78.7 cm🉐.) version
Conceived in 1886; this example cast circa 1895.
We are grateful to Dr.♏ Henry Duffy for his assistance cataloguing this lot.
Stanford White (acquired as a gift 𝓰from the artist in 1895)
Walker C☂ain Associates (formerly McKim, Mead and White), New York
Christie's New York, June 1, 1984, lot 69
Wolf Family Collection No🦋. 0724 (acquired from the above)
John Dryfhout, Diana: Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, Cambridge,♔ Massachusetts, 1975, pp. 201-213
John Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, 🅘New Hampshire, 1982, no. 121, 144, 154,&nbs𝕴p;pp. 155, 194, 205-210, illustrations of other casts
Exh. Cat., Cast in the Shadow: Models for Public Sculpture in America, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1985, fiꦿg. 23, pp. 61-62, illustration of another cast
New York, Cooper Union, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1984
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1985-86, p. 174
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