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Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high (Modeled in 1890.) image 1
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high (Modeled in 1890.) image 2
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high (Modeled in 1890.) image 3
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high (Modeled in 1890.) image 4
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high (Modeled in 1890.) image 5
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high (Modeled in 1890.) image 6
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high (Modeled in 1890.) image 7
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high (Modeled in 1890.) image 8
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high (Modeled in 1890.) image 9
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high (Modeled in 1890.) image 10
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Lot 28

Frederick William MacMonnies
(1863-1937)
Pan of Rohallion 30 1/4in (76.8cm) high

29 July 2020, 16:00 EDT
New York

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Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937)

Pan of Rohallion
inscribed 'Frederick MacMonnies / Copyright 1894 Paris 1890.' and stamped with the Gruet Jeune Fondeur, Paris foundry mark (on the reverse) and inscribed 'TO•PAN•OF•ROHALLION ANNO DOMINI•M•D•C•C•C•L•X•L' (along the base)
gilded bronze
30 1/4in (76.8cm) high
Modeled in 1890.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Kentucky.
Estate of the above.
Private collection, Florida.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature
H.H. Greer, "Frederick MacMonnies, Sculptor," Brush and Pencil, April, 1902, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 8, another example listed.
Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Bronze Statuettes by Frederick MacMonnies, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1903, no. 19, another example listed.
St. Botolph Club, Exhibition of Small Sculptures by Frederick MacMonnies of Paris, and Solon Borglum, of New York, and of Miniatures by Contemporary American Miniature Painters, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Massachusetts, 1904, another example listed (as Pan).
R. Wheelwright, "Fountains and Pools in Garden Design," Arts & Decoration, March 1912, vol. 2, no. 5, p. 174, another example illustrated.
E. Lounsbery, "Lares and Penates: Recent Small Bronzes by American Sculptors and their Intimate Use," Arts & Decoration, April 1914, vol. 4, no. 6, p. 228, another example listed.
B.M. Donaldson, "American Sculpture at Buffalo," The American Magazine of Art, August 1916, vol. 7, no. 10, p. 419, another example listed.
The American Magazine of Art, November 1916, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 29, another example illustrated.
"Art News From Summer Colonies: Bar Harbor.," American Art News, August 18, 1917, vol. XV, no. 36, p. 3, another example listed.
"The Newark Museum," The American Magazine of Art, March 1927, vol. 18, no. 3, p. 154, another example illustrated.
"Acessions-Gifts and Purchases," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, July, 1940, vol. 27, no. 7, p. 113, another example listed.
H.A. Hilker, "Monument to Civilization: Diary of a Building," The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, October 1972, vol. 29, no. 4, p. 252, another example listed.
P. Boswell, "A Portfolio of Washington Drawings," Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C. 1971-1972, 1973, vol. 48, p. 726, another example listed.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture 1810-1940, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1982, pp. 64-65, another example illustrated.
R.J. Clark, "Frederick MacMonnies and the Princeton Battle Monument," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 43, no. 2, 1984, pp. 9, 62, 71, other examples illustrated.
D.W. Dunlap, "A Museum's Cafe Order: A 19th-Century Sculpture," The New York Times, October 19, 1987, vol. CXXXVII, no. 47,297, sec. II, p. B1, another example illustrated.
J.K. Howat, P.O. Harper, H. Nickel, W. Fong, S. Castile, J.L. Druesedow, J. Bean, J.J. Rorimer, C. Lilyquist, E. Fahy, O. Raggio, D.V. Bothmer, D. Walker, G. Szabo, W.D. Wixom, L. Libin, D. Newton, C. Ives, W.S. Lieberman, "Curatorial Reports: American Art," Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 1, 1987-June 30, 1988, no. 118, p. 13, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Houston, Texas, 1989, p. 126, another example illustrated.
James Graham & Sons, The Figure in Sculpture: An Exhibition of Fine American and European, 19th and 20th Century Works in Bronze and Marble, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1989, pp. 46, 70, another example illustrated.
M. Smart, E.A. Gordon, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist's Works, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, pp. 85, 89-90, 92, 99, 106, 150, 156, 237, 288, no. 22, other examples illustrated.
E.A. Gordon, The Sculpture of Frederick William MacMonnies: A Critical Catalogue, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, New York, 1998, p. 121, another example listed.
Eaton Fine Art, Inc., From Neo-Classical and Beaux-Arts to Modernism: A Passage in American Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2000, pp. 20-21, another example illustrated.
D.C. Pollack, Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South, Columbia, South Carolina, 2015, pp. 81, 185, another example listed.

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