A rare example of a reduced-sizeearly 20th-century New York City landmark statue, created by acclaimed sculptorAugustus Saint-Gaudens, will be publicly displayed at the American NumismaticAssociation 2023 Pittsburgh World's Fair of Money®.

Entitled Victory, the statue is reminiscent of the great artist's renowned1907-1933 U.S. Double Eagle gold coins design. The same female model posedfor Saint-Gaudens for both of those projects.

Previously in a private collection for decades, the stunning statue waspurchased for $1,168,400 at a Sotheby's auction by Kevin Lipton of Kevin LiptonRare Coins in Beverly Hills, California this past April. He now will exhibit it for thepublic to see at the ANA Pittsburgh convention, August 8-12.

said Lipton.

After Saint-Gaudens died in 1907, his widow Augusta Fisher HomerSaint-Gaudens authorized the creation of eight reductions. In addition to thethree privately held, five today are in the collections of museums or institutions,such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Carnegie Museumof Art in Pittsburgh, or at national historic sites, including Arlington NationalCemetery in Virginia.

Sotheby's described the Victory statue as

explained Lipton.

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he stated.

The model for Victory was Harriette Eugenia Anderson who later wasthe artist's model for what are known today as America's most beautiful coins,the Saint-Gaudens $20 denomination Double Eagles.

Liptonnoted.

The statue reduction that will be displayed at the ANA 2023 World's Fair ofMoney convention was previously in the extensive art collection of Erving (1926-2018) and Joyce (1927-2022) Wolf. Sotheby's described their Fifth Avenueapartment in New York City as decorated with art that was

The Victory statue will be at booth #606 in Halls A and B of the David L.Lawrence Convention Center, 1000 Fort Duquesne Blvd., Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, the site of the ANA 2023 World's Fair of Money.

For additional information about Kevin Lipton Rare Coins, call (310) 712-8118. For additional information about the ANA convention, visitwww.WorldsFairofMoney.com.