The Numismatic Bibliomania Society

PREV ARTICLE       NEXT ARTICLE       FULL ISSUE       PREV FULL ISSUE      

V20 2017 INDEX       E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 20, Number 16, April 16, 2017, Article 29

GLENNA GOODACRE SCULPTURE AUCTION RESULTS

Dick Johnson submitted this report on the recent sale of items from the studio of artist Glenna Goodacre. Thanks. -Editor

A-Glenna-Goodacre-2011-in-green-with-Coin-and-Tools All items of numismatic interest of Glenna Goodacre’s studio sculpture sold in an auction April 6th. The nine lots led off an auction marathon of 475 lots of the sculpture works by 187 artists, dominated by the 174 sculptural works of Goodacre. These ranged in size from 5-inch facial studies up to 35-foot multiple-figure sculptural work, 35 of which remained unsold.

The initial lot, a drawing of Sacagawea as a precursor of the design for the dollar coin, brought $4,073, neatly double high estimate. Four others brought over estimate, most notable of which was the coin design in terracotta framed with a manuscript signature below for $1,872, also a bronze 8-inch cast dollar coin design, number 94 of 100 cast, sold for $4,095 against a $3,000 estimate.

An over life-size statue 7-foot tall of Sacagawea with infant Jean Baptisa, was highest amount for those portraying the same dollar coin image, It sold for $111,150. the lowest was $595 for a slabbed 2009 dollar, the label reads “Presented to the obverse sculptor Glenna Goodacre by the U.S. Mint.” Without this IGC slab it was an ordinary dollar. The nine lots brought a total of $151,457.

Sculptor Goodacre had announced her retirement from working October 2016. She closed her home and studio in Santa Fe where she had been living, working and creating over 500 works since 1983. She still has three homes, in Aspen, Colorado, Mexico, and Austin Texas where her husband is an attorney. She had previously donated sculptures to two university, donating her sculpture tools to the New Mexico School of Fine Arts. The remaining sculptures in her studio were consigned for this sale.

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
SCULPTOR GLENNA GOODACRE TO RETIRE (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n39a20.html)
GLENNA GOODACRE SCULPTURAL WORKS FOR SALE (www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n11a22.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

Google
 
NBS (coinbooks.org) Web

The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org.

To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com

To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum

PREV ARTICLE       NEXT ARTICLE       FULL ISSUE       PREV FULL ISSUE      

V20 2017 INDEX       E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

Copyright © 1998 - 2020 The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS)
All Rights Reserved.

NBS Home Page
Contact the NBS webmaster

coin