Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 01, 2021
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (Massachusetts/Pennsylvania, 1877-1968), Forest landscape., Oil on canvas, 17" x 15". Framed 23" x 19".
Est: $500 - $1,000
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER Massachusetts/Pennsylvania, 1877-1968 Forest landscape. Signed lower right "M.V. Warrick".
Eldred's
Mar. 16, 2019
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER VASE 2 FIGURE HANDLES
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
AMERICAN HARLEM RENAISSANCE ARTIST 1877- 1968. FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE SCULPTOR OF IMPORTANCE. WOMAN & MAN KNEELING 10" X 8 1/2". #100 INCISED MARK ILLEGIBLE. IT IS MADE OF PLASTER. VIEW ALL PICTURES FOR CONDITION.
Imperial Auction
Feb. 23, 2014
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER, (American, 1877-1968), SILENCE AND REPOSE, gilt patinated plaster;, height: 7 in.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (American, 1877-1968) SILENCE AND REPOSE gilt patinated plaster; initialed MVWF; height: 7 in.
Grogan & Company
Feb. 12, 2011
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (American/Philadelphia,
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (American/Philadelphia, 1887-1968), "Mother and Child (Sorrow)", c. 1920, pair of polychrome plaster bookends, each with cast monogram "MVWF" at side, each approx. height 5 3/4 in., width 4 3/4 in., depth 5 in. PLEASE NOTE: Provenance: Acquired by the present owner from a New Hampshire private collection. Note: These figures are most often seen as single sculptures, though they were likely designed as bookends. The presence of a companion pair, as seen here in this lot, is rare.
Neal Auction Company
Nov. 20, 2010
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (American/Philadelphia,
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (American/Philadelphia, 1877-1968), "The Water Boy", 1930, painted plaster, initialed in monogram "MVWF" on base, inscribed "Dorothy Warrick" on white-painted bottom of base, height 12 1/4 in., width 6 in., depth 4 1/2 in. Provenance: Ex-Collection of Dorothy Warrick, Philadelphia, PA; to current owner. Note: This is a rare cast of a well-known work by a prominent African-American woman artist, Meta Vaux Warrick, who married Dr. Simon Fuller (1871-1957) of Liberia in 1909 This exceptional plaster, finished in gold paint, may be more richly worked than the version in unpainted plaster (collection of Simon Fuller) usually illustrated in discussions of her work; it was certainly retained by her niece, Dorothy Warrick, who inscribed the lower block of the base. The artist had been a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and then in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, and eventually with the most celebrated sculptor of the age, Auguste Rodin in 1902-1903 This figure is indicative of the powerful style of Romantic Realism which Fuller brought to the sculpture of African experiences in America. Reference: Schmidt, Mary, ed. Harlem Renaissance Art of Black America. Campell: New York, 1987, pp. 177-179, color plate 24.
Neal Auction Company
Feb. 23, 2010
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Ta Adoramus Domine (The Three Kings).
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Ta Adoramus Domine (The Three Kings). Painted plaster plaque, circa 1930-35. 375x340 mm; 14 3/4x13 1/2 inches. Incised title, lower margin. Incised "Dorothy Warrick," the artist's niece, on the verso. Provenance: the artist; thence by descent to Dorothy Warrick; private collection. This is the first plaque by the sculptor to come to auction.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 23, 2010
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Peeping Tom of Coventry.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877 - 1968) Peeping Tom of Coventry. Plaster, painted gold, 1899. Approximately 545 mm; 21 1/2 inches high. Incised "Meta Vaux Warrick" and dated "99" in the plaster, lower right. Provenance: the artist; thence by descent to Dorothy Warrick; private collection. Exhibited: The 103rd Annual Exhibition, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, January 20 - February 29, 1908, #893. This is the first important sculpture and the earliest work by Fuller to come to auction. In 1899, the young Ms. Warrick graduated from the Pennsylvania Museum School for Industrial Arts with honors. With a letter of introduction to Henry Ossawa Tanner, she moved to Paris in late October to continue her studies at L'École des Beaux Arts. Fuller befriended Tanner, and received advice and support from the sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and August Rodin. Rodin's sponsorship facilitated an exhibition of 22 sculptures at L'Art Nouveau Gallery in 1902, as well as her inclusion in the Salon of 1903. Fuller's most famous work, The Awakening of Ethiopia, circa 1910, in the collection of the Schomburg Library and Research Center in Harlem, is considered one of the early symbols of the Harlem Renaissance and among the first American art works to reflect the influence of African sculpture. Benjamin Brawley's 1918 work, The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States, describes her as one of the first artists to explore "the tragedy of the Negro Race in the New World." Brawley mentions Peeping Tom as one of the many early works that did not survive the artist's disastrous studio fire in Philadelphia in 1910. Apparently, it was only missing at the time, or this version was not known to exist. This plaster figure was in the artist's estate when she passed away in 1968. The Peeping Tom character comes from the legend of Lady Godiva's naked ride through the streets of Coventry. In the tale, the townsfolk agreed not to observe Godiva as she passed by, but Peeping Tom bore a hole in a door to spy on her. According to the legend, he was immediately struck blind. Leininger-Miller pp. 8-9; Campbell p. 177.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 10, 2009
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER "Silence and Repose" A
Est: $15,000 - $18,000
META VAUX WARRICK FULLER "Silence and Repose" A Pair of Painted Plaster Bookends, circa 1930 Marks: each impressed MVWF, Silence inscribed Model - 72 - 1 7 inches (17.8 cm) high, each Considered vanguard in her portrayal of the emotionally raw black experience, well before the Harlem Renaissance, the African-American sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller was the product of a privileged upbringing and traditional art training. Born in 1877 into a middle-class Philadelphia family, Fuller took art lessons as part of her grooming in etiquette: after her woodcarving for a high school project was selected for display at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, she began to sculpt more seriously -- in clay, plaster, and bronze --, studying for three years at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art and, in 1899, enrolling in the Académie Colarossi in Paris. It was through a fellow Académie student that Fuller met the celebrated sculptor Auguste Rodin, who encouraged her to explore further the "push-pull" between the physical and emotional in her work. These lovely pendant busts, Silence and Repose, exemplify Rodin's influence, where classical female faces anthropomorphize states of mind: indeed, Silence, connoting trapped emotion with her downcast eyes and sealed lips, serves as a foil to Repose, expressing openness and sensuality with her fluttering eyelids and upturned face. For the remainder of her long career in Philadelphia and Framingham, Massachusetts, Fuller, inspired by her friend W.E.B. DuBois, focused on subjects from African-American history and folk tales. Her famous sculptures include Negro's Progress, Spirit of Emancipation, and Ethiopia Awakening, a symbol of the power of Africa, which was readily appropriated by Harlem Renaissance artists. Whether addressing themes of slavery, colonialism, wartime America, racism, or the Civil Rights Movement, Fuller's sculptures convey the interior struggle or development of the individual. Her work has been exhibited at the Paris Salon, Pennsylvania Museum and School for the Industrial Arts, Boston Art Club, Corcoran Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, and New York Public Library, among other institutions.
Heritage Auctions
Sep. 14, 2008
M. FULLER, OIL ON CANVAS, 1910, 12"" X 16"" ""TELL
Est: $500 - $800
M. FULLER, OIL ON CANVAS, 1910, 12"" X 16"" ""TELL " CHAPEL, SWITZERLAND"": Depicting four figures in " a boat near the Tell Chapel in Switzerland. Signed and dated lower right and framed. Possibly Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller [US 1877-1968].
DuMouchelles