Lot 55: Evelyn Beatrice Longman (American, 1874-1954), 1903? The Victor height 27 3/4in

The Victor
signed and dated 'Evelyn B. Longman/1903' (on sphere) and 'Roman Bronze works' (on base)
bronze with brown patina
height 27 3/4in

PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Tiburon, California

LITERATURE:
Gardner, Albert TenEyck, American Sculpture: The Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1965 pg. 117, ill. of another example

The original sculpture was a finial for the dome of Festival Hall at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.