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    IMPORTANT AMERICAN PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS & SCULPTURE

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    21 May 1998

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    Lot 131

    Chauncey Bradley Ives*(1810-1894)

    'Undine Receiving her Soul,' A White Marble Figure of a Water Nymph

    Price realised

    USD 55,200

    Estimate

    USD 60,000 - USD 80,000

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    Chauncey Bradley Ives*(1810-1894)
    'Undine Receiving her Soul,' A White Marble Figure of a Water Nymph
    signed and inscribed 'C.B.IVES.FECIT.ROMAE. 1864'
    40in. (102.8cm.) high

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    W. Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1968, pp. 286-287, fig. 8.13, illus. of another example
    W. Gerdts, "Chauncey Bradley Ives, American Sculptor,"The Magazine Antiques, November 1968, pp. 714-718, illus. of another example
    W. Gerdts, American Neo-Classic Sculpture, New York, 1973, pp. 41, 88, 89, fig. 73, illus. of another example
    The Magazine Antiques, March 1982, cover illus.
    J.S. Kasson, Marble Queens and Captives, Women in Nineteenth Century American Sculpture, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, pp. 169-173, illus. of another example


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