Lot Essay
The elephant bookends were the artist's most successful model and were cast by both the Gorham and Griffoul foundries.
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'Elephant': A Pair of Bookends
Details
Mahonri Mackintosh Young (1877-1957)
'Elephant': A Pair of Bookends
each, inscribed 'Young,' numbered '44' and stamped 'Gorham Co. Founders Q469' (along the base)
each, bronze with brown patina
each, 5½ in. (14 cm.) high
Modeled circa 1913. (2)
'Elephant': A Pair of Bookends
each, inscribed 'Young,' numbered '44' and stamped 'Gorham Co. Founders Q469' (along the base)
each, bronze with brown patina
each, 5½ in. (14 cm.) high
Modeled circa 1913. (2)
Literature
J. Conner and J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Houston, Texas, 1989, p. 186, footnote 24.
The Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, pp. 40-1, other examples illustrated.
The Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, pp. 40-1, other examples illustrated.