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Harriet Whitney Frishmuth(1880-1980)Sweet Grapes 19 1/4in high
18 May 2016, 14:00 EDT
New YorkUS$15,000 - US$25,000
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Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
Sweet Grapes
inscribed indistinctly '© / HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH / 192*' (on the base) and stamped 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS INC. N.Y.' (along the base)
bronze with greenish-brown patina
19 1/4in high
Modeled in 1927.
inscribed indistinctly '© / HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH / 192*' (on the base) and stamped 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS INC. N.Y.' (along the base)
bronze with greenish-brown patina
19 1/4in high
Modeled in 1927.
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Ruth Talcott, Southbury, Connecticut.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1977.
Literature
J. Conner, L.R. Lehmbeck, T. Tolles, Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, New York, 2006, p. 254, no. 1927:4, another example illustrated.
As recorded in Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, the present work, Sweet Grapes, one of the more introspective subjects crafted by the artist, was modeled after the dancer Rose Yasgour, in 1927. Originally conceived as a twenty-inch statuette, the design was later enlarged to a fifty-five-inch version the next year. This small statuette was reproduced in an edition of twenty-six casts, including a metal pattern cast, from 1928 to 1971. Only eight casts were produced by Roman Bronze Works, Inc., and the remaining seventeen casts were completed by Gorham Co. Founders.