ID 1308865
Lot 22 | FREDERICK EDWARD MCWILLIAM, A.R.A. (1909-1992)
Estimate value
£ 18 000 – 25 000
Bilateral Relief
signed with initials and numbered 'McW 1/5' (on the base)
bronze with a green patina
75 in. (190.5 cm.)
Conceived and cast in 1959. This is the only known cast from the intended edition of 5.
Provenance
with Waddington Galleries, London, 1961.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 May 1990, lot 683, where acquired for the present collection.
Literature
R. Penrose (intro.), McWilliam, London, 1964, n.p., no. 52, illustrated.
J. Marle and T.P. Flanagan, exhibition catalogue, F.E. McWilliam, Belfast, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Ulster Museum, 1981, illustrated as a frontispiece.
M. Gooding, exhibition catalogue, F.E. McWilliam: Sculpture 1932-1989, London, Tate Gallery, 1989, p. 21, illustrated.
D. Ferran, exhibition catalogue, F.E. McWilliam at Banbridge, Banbridge, The F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, 2008, pp. 16-17, illustrated.
D. Ferran and V. Holman, The Sculpture of F.E. McWilliam, Much Hadham, 2012, p. 126, no. 184, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, F.E. McWilliam, February - March 1961, no. 4.
Paris, Musée Rodin, 2nd International Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, June - October 1961, no. 160.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Championing Irish Art: The Mary and Alan Hobart Collection, April - July 2023, p. 64, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
| Artist: | Frederick Edward McWilliam (1909 - 1992) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Artist: | Frederick Edward McWilliam (1909 - 1992) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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