Actaeon, 1924
Paul Howard Manship
Bronze with partial gilding on original marble base
29 x 30 1/2 x 8 inches
Base: 1 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 11 1/4
Base: 1 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 11 1/4
Signed: Paul Manship / © 1924 (on the base)
Marked: C. Valsuani. Fondeur (along the base)
Marked: C. Valsuani. Fondeur (along the base)
Artist
Paul Manship’s significance as one of America’s foremost sculptors of the early twentieth century lay in his ability to combine a modernist approach to form within the bounds of figurative art. The variety of his subjects, the infinite beauty of his lines and the pure delight he found in the human figure all contribute to his outstanding reputation.
Provenance
Estate of Margaret Leech Pulitzer, New York
Sotheby Parke-Bernet New York, December 1975
Wolf Family Collection No. 0047 (acquired from the above) 1975-2023
Sotheby's New York, April 2023
Exhibitions
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2008-23 (on loan)Literature
Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, no. 155, p. 164Exh. Cat., St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Museum of Art, Changing Taste in America, 1985, no. 46, pp. 30, 72-73, 75, illustration of another cast
John Manship, Paul Manship, New York, 1989, pp. 101, 111, 113, another cast mentioned
Susan Rather, Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship, Austin, 1993, p. 160, another cast mentioned