Comedy and Tragedy: Sic Vita

between 1891 and 1892

Alfred Gilbert English, 1854-1934

On View

British, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Comedy and Tragedy: Sic Vita

Artwork Date between 1891 and 1892

Artist Alfred Gilbert

Life Dates 1854-1934

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Including base: 30 × 12 × 9 inches (76.2 × 30.5 × 22.9 cm) Overall: 26 5/8 × 12 × 9 inches (67.6 × 30.5 × 22.9 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 79.23

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Provenance

Robert Strauss

1977, his sale, “The Robert Strauss Collection of Renaissance and Other Bronzes,” Christie’s London, 3 May 1977, lot 19 1979, art market, “19th Century English and Continental Sculpture,” Christie’s London, 30 April 1979, lot 107 (listed as property of A.C. Doulton, Esq.)

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Published References

The Robert Strauss Collection. Sales cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd., London, May 5, 1977, no. 19.

Victorian High Renaissance: George Frederick Watts 1817-1904, Frederic Leighton 1830-1896, Albert Moore 1841-1893, Alfred Gilbert 1854-1934. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis, 1978, nos. 97 A and B, pp. 180-181.

Nineteenth Century English and Continental Sculpture. Sales cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd., London, April 30, 1979, no. 107.

“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, April 27, 1980, 26 (ill.).

The Influence of Paris: European and American Sculpture 1830-1930. Exh. cat, Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1981, cat. no. 11, p. 17, (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Alfred Gilbert, Comedy and Tragedy: Sic Vita, between 1891 and 1892, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 79.23.