Suffolk Punch Stallion: Sudbourne Premier

Details

HERBERT HASELTINE (1877-1962)
Suffolk Punch Stallion: Sudbourne Premier
inscribed 'HERBERT HASELTINE/MCMXXXVII' (along the base)
gilded bronze, lapis lazuli and tinted resin
21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) high on a 4 ¾ in. (12.1 cm.) high marble and wood base
Modeled circa 1921-24; cast in 1937.

Provenance

Henry K.S. Williams, San Francisco, California.
Gift to the present owner from the above.

Literature

"'Champion Animals' and 'Champion' Sculpture," The Connoisseur, vol. LXXII, no. 288, August 1925, p. 246.
"A Famous Animal-Sculptor's Academy Exhibits: Haseltine's Horses," The Illustrated London News, May 12, 1928, p. 857, another example illustrated.
K. Parkes, "Herbert Haseltine: Animal Sculptor," Apollo: A Journal of the Arts, vol. XII, no. 68, August 1930, pp. 112-13, another example illustrated.
The American Architect, vol. CXXXVIII, no. 2588, October 1930, p. 60, another example illustrated.
Field Museum of Natural History, Sculptures by Herbert Haseltine of Champion Domestic Animals of Great Britain, Chicago, Illinois, 1934, pp. 12-13, no. 3, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Houston, Texas, 1989, pp. 48, 191.
M. Cormack, Champion Animals: Sculptures by Herbert Haseltine, Richmond, Virginia, 1996, pp. 22-29, another example illustrated.

Exhibited

San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, American Sculpture, July 31-October 31, 1982, pp. 54-55, no. 43, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Part of his series of ten models entitled Champion Animals, the present work memorializes Herbert Haseltine's search for idealized horses, a mission that took him throughout Great Britain in 1921 to seek models. On his travels to various stables, Haseltine molded the animals he saw in plasticine, shipping his models back to his Paris studio to be fully realized.

Recalling the model for Suffolk Punch Stallion: Sudbourne Premier, the artist wrote: "The moment I saw Sudbourne Premier, the magnificent stallion of that famous breed of chestnuts, all my troubles were forgotten and my only thought was to get to work." (as quoted in M. Cormack, Champion Animals: Sculptures by Herbert Haseltine, Richmond, Virginia, 1996, p. 23) Another cast of this scale resides in the Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia, and a cast of the reduced scale is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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