Mary Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (1878-1942)

'Sea Treasures'

Details

Mary Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (1878-1942)
'Sea Treasures'
inscribed 'A StL. Eberle 1913.' (on the base)--stamped 'Cire/Perdue/A.A. Hébrard' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
14 x 28 in. (35.6 x 71.1 cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, Sweden, acquired circa 1950s.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

(Possibly) Arts and Decoration, August 1913, p. 334, illustrated.
L.R. Noun, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle Sculptor (1878-1942), Des Moines, Iowa, 1980, p. 8, no. 63.
J. Conner and J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, p. 30.

Lot Essay

The present work depicts three girls on the shore of Coney Island. The original plaster was exhibited at the seminal Armory Show of 1913. Eberle later cast the three figures separately as 'Child Picking Seaweed', 'Girl Standing' and 'Girl Seated'.

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