Modern British & 20th Century Art - 5th June 2019
Lot 4
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £550
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Description
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)
Terry Thomas (1911-1990), comedian and actor
Signed and dated indistinctly
Bronze
48cm high (2)
With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)
Fredda's husband made a film with Thomas and notes that in his private life he was 'an intellectual - a serious, cultured person, never using a joke in personal conversations' and states that she has 'captured the Terry who is the one in reality, not the professional comedian'.