Jun 15, 2017 - Sale 2452

Sale 2452 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
REUBEN NAKIAN
Leda and the Swan (Large).

Bronze with dark brown patina, 1978. 290x290x145 mm; 11 1/2x11 1/2x5 3/4 inches (excluding wooden base). Incised with the artist's signature, date and numbered 2/7, lower verso. Cast by the Renaissance Art Foundry, Bridgeport, CT, with the incised name lower verso.

Nakian (1897-1986) often depicted classical mythology in his abstracted sculptures, and returned to the theme of Leda and the Swan repeatedly (see preceding lot).