LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with a grey green patina

Measurements:

23.62 in. (60.00 cm.) (height)

Edition:

edition of 6 + 1

Exhibited:

London, Gimpel Fils, Bernard Meadows' Sculpture, April - May 1957. Bochum, Staedtische Kunstgalerie, Contemporary English Art, April - June 1964. London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London Group 1914-64: Jubilee Exhibition, Fifty Years of British Art, July - August 1964, no. 128, as 'Frightened Bird (Water Bird)': this exhibition travelled to Cardiff, National Museum of Wales; Doncaster, New Museum and Art Gallery; and Southampton, Art Gallery.

Literature:

A. Bowness, Bernard Meadows Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1995, pp. 41, 138, no. BM29, pl. 20, another cast illustrated.

Provenance:

with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the present owner's husband by April 1957.