Head of Victory
Augustus Saint-Gaudens' bronze sculptural representation of Victory with a dark brown patina. This allegorical work demonstrates the artist's mastery of form and symbolic portraiture.
- Medium
- bronze with dark brown patina
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
American Art
November 22, 2021
Estimate: $40,000 to $60,000
Lot 35
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Daniel Chester French
American · b. 1850
French was a contemporary of Saint-Gaudens who worked extensively in bronze allegorical sculpture with similar dark patinas, creating monumental symbolic figures that share the same classical idealism and mastery of expressive portraiture seen in this Victory head.
Frederic Remington
American · b. 1861
Remington produced refined American bronze sculptures with rich dark patinas during the same Beaux Arts era, demonstrating comparable technical command of cast bronze surfaces and similarly heroic allegorical and symbolic subject matter.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
French · b. 1827
Carpeaux created deeply expressive bronze portrait busts and allegorical figural sculptures that directly influenced Saint-Gaudens, sharing the same classical vocabulary, emotional naturalism in facial rendering, and rich patinated bronze surfaces evident in this Victory head.
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