Muse with Violin Screen
Wrought iron, silver and gold plate — made for the 1930 Cleveland show and unsold through the Depression, which is the only reason it survived in one piece. A unique commission, so a name band cannot touch it.
MakerPaul Fehér (American, born Hungary, 1898–1990)
Date1930
OriginAmerica, Ohio, Cleveland
MediumSteel, brass; silver and gold plating, cotton velveteen
DimensionsOverall: 156.2 x 156.2 cm (61 1/2 x 61 1/2 in.)
ClassMetalwork
RegisterWork — unique
QuantityOne. There is never a second.
Price on request
How this figure was reached
A name band is built from every lot that name ever carried, most of them prints and multiples. It cannot value a unique work, so none is quoted.
The public record
Auctionet, 2026-09-21 · 302 ended lots found
priced 113
unsold 3
sell-through 97%
confidence 0.57
basis hammer
in euro € 75–€ 178
Attribution
By
Documented as the maker's own work.
Attributed to
The scholarship points here; the documentation is incomplete.
Circle of
The workshop or immediate following, in the maker's lifetime.
Manner of
The style, by another hand, at any date.
After
A copy of a known work by this maker.
Unattributed
No maker of record. Most of the trade lives here.
This plate
Muse with Violin Screen, The Cleveland Museum of Art, object 173164.
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund Released as Public Domain (CC0);
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