Vente aux enchères en direct 18947In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides
AN ARTICULATED PAINTED PINE AND FABRIC CYCLIST
Lot 402THE SIEGMUND COLLECTION OF AMERICAN FOLK ART

AN ARTICULATED PAINTED PINE AND FABRIC CYCLIST

PROBABLY NEW YORK CITY, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Fermé22 January 2021

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AN ARTICULATED PAINTED PINE AND FABRIC CYCLIST
PROBABLY NEW YORK CITY, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
21 ¼ in. long, 15 ½ in. high, 4.3./4 in. wide

Litchfield Auction Gallery, Litchfield, Connecticut, 6 June 1981, lot 184 (illustrated on cover)

Note du spécialiste


This bicycle figure is thought to be depicting a participant in the Six-Day Bicycle Race, an endurance bike race established in 1891 and held at Madison Square Garden. It is possible that this figure might have hung in the rotunda of Madison Square Garden during the races (Elizabeth V. Warren, Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art (New York, 2019), pp. 101-102.)