Victory and Death 

The sculpture was a personification of his mural at Harvard. It may have been done as a study for the mural itself. I know he had done other prepetory sculpture studies for the Boston Public Library murals. 
 

From: Sothebys 

The present work is one of two known casts of a model for a monumental sculpture that was never completed. The other is in the collection of the Hirshorn Musuem, Washington, D.C. 

Provenance: 
Mr. Harold Weinstein (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, October 25, 1979, lot 109, illustrated) 
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale 

Exhibited: 
Elkhart, Indiana, Midwest Museum of American Art, 1980-2001 (on loan) 

Literature: 
Donelson F. Hoopes, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1964, no. 165, illustrated 
 
Notes: 
 

Sold Sotheby's; 05 Mar 03, Session 1 
 10:15 am; Lot: 60 of 164 lots in auction; Sale number N07876; $42,000 

Offered, not sold, Sotheby's; 11/28/2001; Lot: 89; Sale number N07737; estimated US $20,000 - US $30,000 
 

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