LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze relief with brown patina

Measurements:

6.50 in. (16.50 cm.) (height) by 13.27 in. (33.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed 'TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON/FROM HIS FRIEND AVGVSTVS/SAINT-GAVDENS NEW YORK/SEPTEMBER MDCCC/LXXXVII' (upper right)--inscribed with poem 'To Will H. Low' from Underwoods (1887) by Stevenson (upper left)

Literature:

W.H. Low, 'Robert Louis Stevenson and Augustus Saint-Gaudens,' A Chronicle of Friendship, 1873-1900, New York, 1908, pp. 390-92, another example referenced. H. Saint-Gaudens, ed., The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, vol. 1, New York, 1913, p. 394, another example referenced. B. Hollingsworth, American Sculptors Series: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, New York, 1948, p. 23, another example illustrated. J.W. Bond, 'Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Man and His Art,' manuscript, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service, Washington, D.C., 1968, pp. 76-78, another example referenced. J.H. Dryfhout, 'Robert Louis Stevenson,' Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975, pp. 183, 198-200, no. 23, another example illustrated. J.H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982, pp. 173-74, no. 132, another example illustrated. K. Greenthal, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor, Boston, Massachusetts, 1985, pp. 119-21, 174, another example illustrated.

Provenance:

Private collection, Paris, France. Private collection, acquired from the above, circa 1912. Private collection, by descent. Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 2005, lot 139, sold by the above. (Probably) Acquired by the present owner from the above.