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Isidore Konti, Orpheus, 1901
Orpheus, 1901
Isidore Konti
Bronze
16 H x 10 W inches
Inscribed: I. Konti; stamped ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y.; copyright on base
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artist

Konti is a key figure in the realm of turn of the century American sculpture.  He taught and influenced sculptors such as Manship and Kalish, was highly regarding by Daniel C. French and worked on a commission with Gutzon Borglum.  He did not cast works in high numbers and often all collectors are able to come by are casts of his book ends.  This work precedes his well known Genius of Immortality in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art by almost ten years.   

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Orpheus is conceived while Konti shared a studio at 55th Street in New York with Hermon MacNeil and Evelyn Longman was his studio assistant.  It epitomizes the Beaux Arts classical style that Konti adhered to for his small ideal bronzes and his large architectural and monumental work.  It depicts Orpheus at his ultimate moment as he descends into Hades with his Lyre to rescue Eurydice. 

provenance

Private Collection, CT

exhibitions

Yonkers, New York, Yonkers Art Assoc. Second Annual Exh. 1917 (another example exhibited)

The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, The Sculpture of Isidore Konti 1862 – 1938, January 26 – March 30, 1975, No. 17 (another example exhibited)

literature

M. J. S. Madigan, The Sculpture of Isidore Konti 1862 – 1938, New York, 1974, No. 17

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