Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Amor Caritas
Auction Closed
April 20, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1848 - 1907
Amor Caritas
inscribed AUGUSTUS· / SAINT GAUDENS / ·M·D·C·C·C·X·C·VIII· (lower left); inscribed COPYRIGHT BY / A. SAINT GAUDENS / MDCCCXCVIII (lower right)
bronze
39½ x 16½ in. (100.3 x 41.9 cm.)
Conceived in 1880; this example cast after 1898.
We are grateful to Dr. Henry Duffy for his assistance cataloguing this lot.
James Graham & Sons, New York
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, New York
Estate of the above
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 31, 1975, lot 28 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0030 (acquired from the above)
New York, Cooper Union, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1984
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1985 (on loan)
Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture, New York, 1903, no. 42, pp. 289, 296, illustrated
Albert TenEyck Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965, pp. 49-50, illustrated
Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1968, p. 392
Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture 1810-1940, 1982, no. 24, pp. 50-51, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The American Way in Sculpture 1890-1930, 1986, no. 1, p. 12, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Uncommon Spirit: Sculpture in America, 1800-1940, 1989, no. 16, pp. 30-31, illustration of another cast