FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937)
FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937)
FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937)
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FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937)
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Property from a Private Collection, Laguna Niguel, California
FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937)

Diana

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FREDERICK WILLIAM MACMONNIES (1863-1937)
Diana
inscribed 'F. MacMonnies/1890/copyright 1894' and stamped with the Jaboeuf & Rouard foundry mark (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
31 in. (78.7 cm.) high
Modeled circa 1888-90; cast circa 1894.
Provenance
D. Sole & Son, New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1992.
Sotheby's, New York, 17 September 2019, lot 59, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
D.L. Stover, American Sculpture: The Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, California, 1982, pp. 33, another example illustrated on the cover.
M. Smart, E.A. Gordon, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies, with a Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture and a Checklist of Paintings, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, pp. 287-88, no. 20, another example illustrated.
E.A. Gordon, The Sculpture of Frederick William MacMonnies: A Critical Catalogue, PhD. diss., New York University, 1998, pp. 105-113.
T. Tolles, American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865, New York, 1999, pp. 428-31, another example illustrated.
D. Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design, Vol. I, 1826-1925, New York, 2004, p. 373, another example illustrated.

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Lot Essay

While in Paris, Frederick William MacMonnies completed a life-sized plaster model of Diana in December 1888, which he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1889. The model received honorable mention, and its favorable response inspired the artist to create bronze statuettes that were cast mainly by the Parisian foundries E. Gruet and Jaboeuf et Rouard beginning in 1890.

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