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Lot 56: Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810-1894)

Est: $150,000 USD - $250,000 USDSold:
Christie'sNew York, NY, USDecember 02, 2009

Item Overview

Description

Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810-1894)
Undine Rising from the Water
signed 'C.B. Ives. Fecit. Romae.' (along the base)
marble
77 in. (195.6 cm.) high
Modeled circa 1880-82.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

West Palm Beach, Florida, Eaton Fine Art, 2001.

Literature

W. Craven, Sculpture in America, Newark, Delaware, 1984, pp. 286-87, 307, fig. 8.13, another example illustrated.
W.H. Gerdts, "Chauncey Bradley Ives, American Sculptor," Antiques, November 1968, pp. 716-17, fig. 5, another example illustrated (as Undine Receiving Her Soul).
H.N.B. Clark, A Marble Quarry: The James H. Ricau Collection of Sculpture at the Chrysler Museum of Art, New York, 1997, pp. 118-21, no. 27, fig. 55, another example illustrated.
Spanierman Gallery, Twelve American Masterpieces, New York, 1998, pp. 32-34, 38, illustrated.
Eaton Fine Art, exhibition catalogue, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2001, pp. 14-15, illustrated.

Provenance

Eugene Leone Collection, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1987.

Auction Details

Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture

by
Christie's
December 02, 2009, 10:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US