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Lot 38W

Thomas Ball
(1819-1911)
La Petite Pensée 19 1/2in high

18 May 2016, 14:00 EDT
New York

US$12,000 - US$18,000

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Thomas Ball (1819-1911)

La Petite Pensée
signed and dated 'T. Ball. 1870' (on the reverse)
marble
19 1/2in high

Footnotes

Provenance
The Wright Family, Westfield, New York, by 1880.
Private collection, New York.

Literature
T. Tolles, ed., American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865, vol. I, New York, 2001, pp. 82-83, no. 32, another example illustrated.

Other examples of this marble exist in public collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania; the Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, New York; the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

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