Modern British & 20th Century Art - 5th June 2019

Lot 17

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish

Estimate £100 - £200 | Hammer £450

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Description

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)

Nadia Nerina (South African, 1927-2008), prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet; Nita Massine, Furriers wife; unknown head

One signed and dated 1968

Two plaster and one resin

44cm high; 51cm high; 42cm high, with three of Brilliant's tools (7)

With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)