This rare parcel-gilt bronze of Atalanta, the mythological heroine who races against her unwanted suitors, is typical of Paul Manship’s masterly rendering of classical subjects in a modern and elegant manner. Manship, best known for the Prometheus Fountain at Rockefeller Center focused on traditional subjects—ancient myths, biblical subjects and Native American lore with a contemporary (for early 20th century taste) vision—which is now defined as Art Deco.
Paul Howard Manship
Atalanta 1921
parcel-gilt bronze, 30 x 21 3/4 inches including original marble shaped base