Lot Essay
This figure was modelled after Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Standing Lincoln, which was created in 1886.
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PROPERTY FROM THE ROYAL AND SUNALLIANCE COLLECTION
A CARVED AND PAINTED PINE STANDING FIGURE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
AMERICAN, CIRCA 1887
Details
A CARVED AND PAINTED PINE STANDING FIGURE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
American, Circa 1887
32¼ in. high
American, Circa 1887
32¼ in. high
Provenance
Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut
Sold Sotheby's New York, The American Folk Art Collection of Howard and Catherine Feldman, June 23, 1988, lot 135
Sold Sotheby's New York, The American Folk Art Collection of Howard and Catherine Feldman, June 23, 1988, lot 135
Literature
Lipman and Winchester, The Flowering of American Folk Art (New York, 1974), p. 123, fig. 164.
Exhibited
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Flowering of American Folk Art, February-March 1974; Richmond, The Virginia Museum, April-June 1974; San Francisco, The M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, June-September 1974.