Live Auction 21774Modern American Art
PAUL HOWARD MANSHIP (1885-1966)
Lot 30

PAUL HOWARD MANSHIP (1885-1966)

Owl

Closed18 April 2024

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USD 37,800

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PAUL HOWARD MANSHIP (1885-1966)
Manship, P.H.
Owl
inscribed 'P.M' (on the underside)
bronze with brown patina
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high with a 3 ½ in. (7.6 cm.) bronze rod on a 1 ¼ in. (3.2 cm.) lapis base
Modeled circa 1936-38.

Cecile Singer, New York.
Estate of the above, until 2005.
Sotheby’s, New York, 16 September 2005, lot 62, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

Paul Howard Manship’s The Moods of Time was exhibited in 1939 at the New York World’s Fair. One element of this allegorical group, entitled Evening, depicts an owl, wings spread, majestically in flight. The present cast was made based on a scale model for Evening.