Arts and Crafts - 6th October 2020
Lot 328
Sir Alfred Gilbert MVO RA (1854-1934) Charity patinated bronze on ebonised wood base unsigned...
Estimate £8,000 - £12,000 | Hammer £12000
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Description
Sir Alfred Gilbert MVO RA (1854-1934)
Charity
patinated bronze on ebonised wood base
unsigned
35cm. high (bronze), 47.5cm. high (total height)
Provenance
Charles & Lavinia Handley-Read, thence by descent.
Literature
Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art The Handley-Read Collection Royal Academy of Arts, 1972 page 109 catalogue number F.29 for another, slightly taller version listed.
Richard Dorment Alfred Gilbert Yale, page 27 figure 9 for the plaster version (Tate Gallery).
Alfred Gilbert Royal Academy of Arts, 1986, catalogue number 91 for a comparable example illustrated and also catalogue number 90 for an example cast by Alessandro Parlanti in August 1899 with experimental two colour patination technique.