Dying Centaur, (sculpture).

Dying Centaur, (sculpture).

Rimmer, William, 1816-1879, sculptor.

Dying Centaur, (sculpture).

Modeled ca. 1869. Cast 1967.

Digital Reference:

25 3/4 x 25 5/8 x 21 1/2 in.

(Inscribed on base:) W Rimmer (On side of the base, by the tail:) (copyright symbol) Cast by Kennedy Galleries, Inc. / 1967 / 2/15 signed

Centaur figure lying on ground with left arm (truncated at the elbow) raised upward.

Mythology -- Classical -- Centaur

State of Being -- Death

National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565 Accession Number: 1968.2.1

Gift of Avalon Foundation, 1968.

Number 2 in an edition of 15 bronze casts made by Kennedy Galleries in 1967 from the plaster now in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery (IAS 75001867).

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985

National Gallery of Art, 1990.

Weidman, Jeffrey, 1986, 1993.

Weidman, Jeffrey, "William Rimmer: Critial Catalogue Raisonne," Ph.D., Indiana University, 1981, sculpture checklist.

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