Live Auction 2318Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Christie’s roundel
Lot 175 PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION

Paul Howard Manship (1885-1966)

'Mother and Child'

Closed20 May 2010

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USD 37,500

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Paul Howard Manship (1885-1966)
'Mother and Child'
inscribed 'P.MANSHIP' (on the base)--inscribed 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina and parcel gilding
16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) high with a marble base 1 in. (2.5 cm.) high

J. Lionberger Davis, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. Santo di Gati, Bristol, Rhode Island.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 24 October 1968, lot 25.
Julius Reiner, New York, acquired from the above.

Specialist note

This work is accompanied by an original letter from Paul Manship dated November 30, 1961. In the letter, Manship states that the work dates from 1917 and it was conceived as a study for a lifesize fountain with the same title made for the garden of Charles Schwab, Loretto, Pennsylvania.