After Harriet Whitney Frishmuth "The Vine" Bronze Nude Statuette

Item Details

After Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (Pennsylvania/Connecticut, 1880 – 1980)
The Vine, 20th century reproduction
Cast bronze on marble base
Signed in mold
Cast by European Bronze Finery

From the significant collection of an Italian art dealer.

‘In the early twentieth century, sculptures of dancing women were produced in great numbers, inspired in part by the popularity of Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, and Anna Pavlova. Frishmuth often turned to dancers for her sculptural themes and employed them to pose for her with musical accompaniment. Shown stretching upward and outward in imitation of a living vine, this lyrical nude balances on tiptoe in the ecstasy of performance, a grapevine suspended in her hands. The first version of the work, a statuette eleven and a quarter inches high, was enormously popular, cast in an edition of 396. In 1923, Frishmuth enlarged the sculpture to monumental scale, using Desha Delteil of the Fokine Ballet as her model.’
- metmuseum.org

Condition

- scattered oxidation; scratches and abrasions to front and upper portion of sculpture; dust accumulation to crevices; scratches and abrasions to base; some felt loss to underside.

Dimensions

- measures sculpture with base; sculpture without base measures 6.5" W x 15" H x 8" D.

Item #

ITMGP41935