LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Size Notes:

including base

Markings:

signed

Exhibited:

London, Leicester Galleries, Albert Rutherston, Paintings; Jean-Francois Millet, Drawings & Studies; Frank Dobson, Sculpture & Drawings, November 1921, cat. no.114 (another cast); Wembley, Palace of Art, British Empire Exhibition, 1925 (polished brass version); London, Arts Council Gallery, Frank Dobson 1886-1963: Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture, Drawings & Designs, 22nd June – 23rd July 1966, cat. no.2 (another cast).

Literature:

Percy Wyndham Lewis (ed.), The Tyro: A Review of the Arts of Painting, Sculpture and Design, Issue No.1, The Egoist Press, London 1921, pl.6, p.11 (clay model illustrated, as Dancing Figures); T.W. Earp, Frank Dobson: Sculptor, Tiranti, London 1945, pl.6a (polished brass version illustrated); Neville Jason & Lisa Thompson-Pharoah, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, HMF/Lund Humphries, Much Hadham/London 1994, cat. no.5, illustrated (another cast).

Provenance:

Whitford and Hughes, London, where acquired by the present owner circa 1970s