Name: Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
Brand: Extase (Nocturne)
Price: 18000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)
Extase (Nocturne)
inscribed 'HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH 1920' (on the base)--stamped 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS/QBKE' (along the base)
bronze with reddish-brown patina
19¾ in. (50.2 cm.) high
Modeled in 1920; cast by 1935.

William S. Stimmel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by 1935.
By descent to the present owner.

R.H. McDonough, “Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, American Sculptor,” The Courier, vol. 9, no. 1, October 1917, p. 23.
C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 103-05, 206, another example illustrated.
J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, p. 38.
C.S. Rubinstein, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 154.
J. Conner, L.R. Lehmbeck, T. Tolles, F.L. Hohmann III, Captured Motion, The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, pp. 31, 68-69, 80, 107, 119, 148-49, 239, 277, no. 1920:4, another example illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Extase refers to composer Alexander Scriabin's Le poème de l'extase from 1908 and was posed for by Frishmuth's favorite model, Desha. One of the artist's most popular early works, Extase received the National Arts Club Gold Medal in 1921.