Meta Vaux Fuller Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Meta Vaux Fuller Art Value Price Guide

Dec. 14, 2024
Meta Warrick Fuller, 1877-1968, Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth (Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts)
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Meta Warrick Fuller 1877-1968 Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth (Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts) 1960-1965 painted and incised plaster 11 inches diameter incised "III" verso unsigned, but verified by the Danforth Museum at Framingham State University, home of the largest collection of the artist's work. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller is known for her depictions of the African and African-American experience. Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, she created intimate portraits of friends and family, self-portraits, and commissioned works for national and international expositions. Anticipating themes of the Harlem Renaissance, Fuller used the figure as metaphor to represent broad themes as African-American artists and intelligentsia sought to formulate and celebrate an African-American cultural identity and express racial experience and social issues in America. Provenance: private collection, Washington, DC https://danforth.framingham.edu/exhibition/meta-fuller/
Black Art Auction
Dec. 14, 2024
Meta Warrick Fuller, 1877-1968, Ta Adoramus Domine (Three Kings)
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Meta Warrick Fuller 1877-1968 Ta Adoramus Domine (Three Kings) 1921 plaster 12-1/2 x 11-3/8 inches unsigned, but verified by the Danforth Museum at Framingham State University, home of the largest collection of the artist's work. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller is known for her depictions of the African and African-American experience. Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, she created intimate portraits of friends and family, self-portraits, and commissioned works for national and international expositions. Anticipating themes of the Harlem Renaissance, Fuller used the figure as metaphor to represent broad themes as African-American artists and intelligentsia sought to formulate and celebrate an African-American cultural identity and express racial experience and social issues in America. Provenance: private collection, Washington, DC A related work is in the collection of the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University. https://danforth.framingham.edu/exhibition/meta-fuller/
Black Art Auction
Feb. 06, 2021
Meta Warrick Fuller, 1877-1968, Mother and Child (Sorrow)
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Meta Warrick Fuller 1877-1968 Mother and Child (Sorrow) c. 1920 plaster painted with gold patina 6 x 5 x 5 inches initialed A bronze cast is pictured in Mary Schmidt Campbell, et al., Harlem Renaissance, the Art of Black America (New York: 1987), p. 19, pl. 4. Provenance: The Collection of Dr. Dianne Whitfield-Locke and Dr. Carnell Locke, MD Exhibited: Building on Tradition, The Collection of Dr. Dianne Whitfield-Locke and Dr. Carnell Locke, Hampton University Museum, October 12, 2013-December 7, 2013. Literature: International Review of African American Art, vol. 24, 3B, Hampton University Museum, VA.
Black Art Auction
Dec. 02, 2017
Three piece lot to include Selina Trieff (1934-2015), framed lithograph, "Almost Home", 4/125, 24 1/2" x 19 1/2"; Ella Jackson, ink-...
Est: $75 - $150
Three piece lot to include Selina Trieff (1934-2015), framed lithograph, "Almost Home", 4/125, 24 1/2" x 19 1/2"; Ella Jackson, ink-wash, "Summer's End" with Longboat Key Art Center label on verso, 13 1/2" x 18 1/2"; and Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), pencil drawing, Bust of a girl, pencil signed M. Fuller, sight size: 10 1/2" x 8".
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 14, 2017
Three piece lot to include Selina Trieff (1934-2015), framed lithograph, "Almost Home", 4/125, 24 1/2" x 19 1/2"; Ella Jackson, ink-...
Est: $150 - $250
Three piece lot to include Selina Trieff (1934-2015), framed lithograph, "Almost Home", 4/125, 24 1/2" x 19 1/2"; Ella Jackson, ink-wash, "Summer's End" with Longboat Key Art Center label on verso, 13 1/2" x 18 1/2"; and Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), pencil drawing, Bust of a girl, pencil signed M. Fuller, sight size: 10 1/2" x 8".
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Aug. 19, 2017
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), pencil drawing, Bust of a girl, pencil signed M. Fuller. sight size: 10 1/2" x 8".
Est: $200 - $400
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), pencil drawing, Bust of a girl, pencil signed M. Fuller. sight size: 10 1/2" x 8".
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 06, 2011
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Silence and Repose.
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Silence and Repose. Pair of plaster bookends, painted gold, circa 1934. Both approximately 165x125x100 mm; 6 1/2x5x4 inches. Both incised with artist's initials. Provenance: private Massachusetts collection. Silence and Repose is a well known pair of works from Fuller's mid-career, and are described and photographed by her biographer, art historian Judith Kerr, in her 1986 doctoral thesis. A set was in the artist's Framingham home after she married Dr. Solomon C. Fuller, and was considered "the artist's most significant work of 1934." Kerr describes how the symbolism of Silence and Repose are in "the tradition of 'ideal' sculpture" to epitomize contemplation and enlightenment--a fitting theme for objects associated with a library. Kerr pp. 293-4.
Swann Auction Galleries
May. 19, 2011
Fuller, Figure of a Woman, Plaster Sculpture
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (American, 1877-1968), figure of a woman, plaster, initialed in monogram "MVWF" on base, 18 3/4"h. Undamaged.
Kaminski Auctions
Feb. 17, 2011
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Untitled (Portrait of a Young Boy).
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Untitled (Portrait of a Young Boy). Painted plaster (including the base), circa 1930. Approximately 483x229x152 mm; 19x9x6 inches. Incised with the artist's monogram, verso. Provenance: the artist; thence by descent to Dorothy Warrick, the artist's niece; private collection. This is the first portrait, and the largest bust by Fuller, to come to auction. In 1899, Warrick graduated with honors from the Pennsylvania Museum School for Industrial Arts. With a letter of introduction to Henry Ossawa Tanner, she moved to Paris in late October to continue her studies at L'École des Beaux Arts. Fuller befriended Tanner, and received advice and support from the sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Auguste Rodin. Rodin's sponsorship facilitated an exhibition of 22 sculptures at L'Art Nouveau Gallery in 1902, as well as Warrick's inclusion in the Salon of 1903. She returned from Paris and married neurologist and psychologist Dr. Solomon Fuller from Liberia, and they raised a family in Framingham, MA. In 1910, her career suffered a significant setback when a warehouse with much of her artwork was destroyed by a fire. This plaster bust was in the artist's estate at the time of her death in 1968.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 17, 2009
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Sorrow.
Est: $5,000 - $7,500
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Sorrow. Plaster bookend, painted gold, circa 1934. Approximately 145x125x113 mm; 5 3/4x5x4 1/2 inches. With the artist's initials incised, right side. Provenance: private Maryland collection. Fuller's bookends are scarce works by one of the first renowned African-American sculptors, whose long career included studying and working in Paris with Auguste Rodin. In Paris she also met scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, whose philosophy served as the inspiration for Ethiopia Awakening, one of the great symbols of the Harlem Renaissance, in the collection of the Schomburg Library and Research Center in Harlem. Much of her most promising work was tragically lost in a 1910 Philadelphia warehouse fire. This is only the second work by Fuller to come to auction; a pair of similar bookends Silence and Repose were sold at Swann Galleries on February 19, 2008.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 19, 2008
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Silence and Repose.
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Silence and Repose. Pair of plaster bookends, painted gold, circa 1934. Both approximately 165x125x100 mm; 6 1/2x5x4 inches. Both with the artist's initials incised, right side. Both with scattered wear and chipping. Silence has the embossed markings of "El Roi Tan - FLOR FINA," the trademark of a cigar maker, on its base. The artist used the lid of a embossed tin cigar box to make the mold. Provenance: gift from the artist to Dorothy Lanard, Framingham, MA, a close childhood friend; thence a gift to the current owner. These bookends are very scarce and wonderfully Romantic works by one of the first renowned African-American sculptors. Fuller is an important artist whose long career included working in Paris with Auguste Rodin. Her most famous work The Awakening of Ethiopia, circa 1910, one of the great symbols of the Harlem Renaissance, is in the collection of the Schomburg Library and Research Center in Harlem. Silence and Repose are well-known works from the artist's mid-career, and are described and photographed by her biographer, art historian Judith Kerr in her 1986 doctoral thesis. This pair was in the artist's Framingham home after she married Dr. Solomon C. Fuller, and were part of "the artist's most significant work of 1934." Kerr describes how the symbolism of "Silence" and "Repose" are in "the tradition of 'ideal' sculpture" to epitomize contemplation and enlightenment - a fitting theme for objects associated with a library. We believe this is the first time a work by Fuller has ever come to auction. Kerr pp. 293-4; St. James p. 203-4.
Swann Auction Galleries