ID 1362934
Lot 8 | BARBARA TRIBE (1913-2000)
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
Medusa
signed 'Barbara Tribe' and numbered '8/12'
bronze with dark brown patina
15 in. (38 cm.) high
Conceived in 1931 and executed in an edition of 12.
Provenance
Private Collection
Bay East Art, Sydney, 22 March 2009, lot 222 (illustrated).
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above.
Anonymous sale; Smith and Singer, Melbourne, 24 October 2018, lot 68, where acquired by the late Barry Humphries.
Literature
P.R. McDonald, Barbara Tribe, Sculptor, Sydney, 2000, pp.15, 67-8, 156, another cast illustrated on the cover and pl. 1, p. 76.
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