Sale 9912071 | Lot 36

Bessie Potter Vonnoh

Catalogue: European and American Paintings

Lot Details

Lot 36
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
1872 - 1955
GOOD NIGHT (ON THE SANDMAN'S TRAIL)
Plaster, shellacked
Height 9 1/4 inches

Provenance:
The sculptor;
to Roman Bronze Works, until 1988.

Exhibited:
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Primary Models: American Plasters 1880 - 1945, 1990,pp.32 - 33, no. 23 ill.

Literature:
Art and Progress (June 1913), illus.;
The Delineator (Oct. 1925), illus.

This subject was shown in co-exhibitions of the work of Bessie Potter Vonnoh and her husband, Robert Vonnoh, at McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, 1911, no. 16, as Bonne Nuit; Doll & Richards, Boston, 1914, no. 79 illus.; the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1914, no. 78; and the City Art Musuem, St. Louis, 1916, no. 71.

Bronzes of Good Night, almost certainly cast directly from this plaster, are in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and The Art Institute of Chicago, IL.

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Sold for $1,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Sold for $1,500 (includes buyer's premium)

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