Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878-1949)
A Bronze Group of a Satyr and a Mermaid
inscribed 'AITKEN' and stamped 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y.'
28½in. (72.4cm.) high, including wood base, greenish brown patina
Literature
B. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, 1968 ed., p. 144
Lot Essay
This bronze is possibly a reduction of the group The Find, which depicts a mermaid and a satyr.