Modern British & 20th Century Art - 5th June 2019
Lot 2
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £5000
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Description
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)
Mahatma Gandhi (Indian, 1869-1948), two small maquettes. Gandhi was an activist and leader of the Indian independence movement against British colonial rule, one a miniature version of the bronze seated Gandhi in Tavistock Square; one walking, as submitted to the Gandhi Memorial Committee
Signed and walking Gandhi dated 1963
Both resin
28cm high; 30cm high (4)
With a framed photograph of Brilliant with three versions of Gandhi sculptures, also with a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)