Modern British & 20th Century Art - 5th June 2024
Lot 18
Φ After Eric Kennington
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £756
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Description
Φ After Eric Kennington
Bacchus
Resin
34.2 x 14.5 x 11.5cm
Provenance:
Property of Eric Kennington;
And by family descent
After the original in brass, sold in these rooms, 7 June 2023, lot 20. This was one of Kennington’s early sculptures, and provides an interesting counterpoint to the carved stone works that would come to dominate his oeuvre. During this period helived in Chiswick facingthe River Thames,and Bacchus was intended to serve as a table ornament on the barge owned by his friend the writer A. P. Herbert (1890-1971).