Modern British & 20th Century Art - 5th June 2019
Lot 21
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £1700
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Description
‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)
Three Winged Figures, Prometheus, Christ, Icarus
Signed and dated 1969
Bronze
122cm high (2)
With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)
This bronze is a symbol of restoration, through learning and ingenuity man resurrects and Brilliant says 'Whether as Prometheus or Christus or Icarus man will always rise again'