Modern Evening Auction

Modern Evening Auction

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Property from the Estate of Amy Scheuer Cohen

Elie Nadelman

Chanteuse

Auction Closed

May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Amy Scheuer Cohen

Elie Nadelman

1882 - 1946


Chanteuse

carved and painted cherry wood with metal coil

height: 36 ½ in. 92.7 cm.

Executed circa 1925.

Lloyd Goodrich, New York

Spanierman Gallery, New York (acquired from the estate of the above in 1987)

Acquired from the above in 1990 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Collection of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1959, p. 11, another example mentioned

Exh. Cat., New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Elie Nadelman: Sculpture, no. 15, illustration of another example

Barbaralee Diamonstein, ed., The Art World: A Seventy-Five-Year Treasury of ArtNews, New York, 1977, p. 46, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life, 2003, fig. 138, pp. 121 and 130, illustration of another example

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Sculpture and Drawings of Eli Nadelman 1882-1946, 1975, no. 61, pp. 67 and 69, illustrated

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Uncommon Spirit: Sculpture in America 1800-1940, 1989, no. 43, p. 65