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The Tatti Family Collection | February 19, 2025

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The Tatti Family has been at the center of the art world for three generations, casting, conserving, creating, and collecting. They have been artists, art historians, fabricators, and foundrymen, and have helped create and conserve diverse masterworks throughout much of the 20th century. This auction includes over 100 paintings, drawings, sculptures, unique terracotta and plaster works by many of the most important artists of the 20th century, including Isamu Noguchi, Harry Bertoia, Joseph Stella, Anton Basky, Emil Carlsen, Frederick MacMonnies, Richard Hayley Lever, and many others.
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Lot 504

Isamu Noguchi Model for Marc Connelly

Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Starting Bid
$400

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(American, 1904-1988) 

Portrait head of Marc Connelly (NM152.01), 1937, signed on back "Isamu 1937/Basky Fdry NY", plaster on wood base, 16-3/4 x 9 x 9-1/2 in.

Provenance: The Tatti Family Collection

Note: Marcus Cook Connelly (1890-1980) was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist. He was a key member of the Algonquin Round Table, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930.

See The Noguchi Museum for the bronze cast in 1937 (152.01) and 1960: https://www.noguchi.org/artworks/collection/view/marc-connelly/

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The Tatti Family Collection

some abrasions and chips to plaster; base with abrasions