Lot 1671
Lot 1671
Henry Di Spirito (1898-1995)

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Price Realised USD 7,500
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USD 700 - USD 900
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Henry Di Spirito (1898-1995)

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Price Realised USD 7,500
Price Realised USD 7,500
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Henry Di Spirito (1898-1995)
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granite
11 x 14 x 9 1/2 in. (27.9 x 35.5 x 24.1 cm.)
Executed in 1949
Provenance
Paul Coonradt, New Hartford
Estate of Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1952
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1980
Literature
J. Barnitz et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, New York, 1988, vol II, p. 185.
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse: Di Spirito, Kriesberg, Mintz, May-July 1951, no. 3.
Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Sculpture by Henry Di Spirito, November 1957, no. 5 (illustrated).
Radnor, Gulph Mill, Sculpture by Henry Di Spirito, September-October 1964.
Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy, Henry Di Spirito, June-July 1968.

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