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VENUS ANADYOMENE

measurements
height: 8 1/2 in.

alternate measurements
(21.6 cm)

inscribed P. Manship. © 1924

bronze, dark brown patina

PROVENANCE

By descent through the family to the present owners

LITERATURE

Vogue, March 1, 1927, p. 75, illustration of another example
Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, p. 163
Gloria Kittleson, et al, Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1985, pp. 88-9, illustration of another example
Harry Rand, Paul Manship, Washington, D.C., 1988, p. 60, illustration of another example

NOTE

According to Gurdon L. Tarbox, "this exquisite figure was executed as a study for a fountain at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Her figure is not so robust as those seen in Green and Roman Sculpture. She is seen here bent over rather than in the traditional standing form, wringing water from her hair as she emerges from the sea. She keels on folded garments, presenting a compact sculptural form" (Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America, 1985, p. 89).

In his catalogue of Manship's sculpture, Edwin Murtha describes Venus Anadyomene as "a fine example of Manship's genius for imposing a rigid geometrical form upon a realistic subject without distorting it" (Paul Manship, 1957, p. 163).