Lot 208
Lot 208
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Edward Henry Berge (1876-1924)

Wild Flower

Price Realised USD 16,250
Estimate
USD 12,000 - USD 18,000
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Edward Henry Berge (1876-1924)

Wild Flower

Price Realised USD 16,250
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Price Realised USD 16,250
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Edward Henry Berge (1876-1924)
Wild Flower
inscribed 'BERGE' and stamped 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (along the base)
bronze with verdigris patina
42½ in. (108 cm.) high
Modeled in 1909.
Provenance
Private collection, New Jersey.
Estate of the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 2005, lot 155, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
Panama Pacific International Exposition, Post-Exposition Exhibition in the Department of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, 1916, p. 25, no. 40, another example referenced.
B. Porter, et al., Art in California: A Survey of American Art with Special Reference to Californian Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Past and Present, Particularly as Those Arts Were Represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1916, pp. 11, 126, 179, another example illustrated.
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Wild Flower was modeled in three sizes: life-size (1909, such as the present work), medium (1916) and small (1923). Another life-size cast was displayed at the Palace of Fine Arts during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, where it was awarded a bronze medal.
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