FREDERICK EDWARD MCWILLIAM, A.R.A. (1909-1992)

Lot 236
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Lot 236 | FREDERICK EDWARD MCWILLIAM, A.R.A. (1909-1992)
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£ 15 000 – 25 000
FREDERICK EDWARD MCWILLIAM, A.R.A. (1909-1992)

Triad

signed with initials and numbered 'McW 3/5' (on the base)

bronze with a grey and green patina

44 in. (111.8 cm.) high

Conceived and cast in 1959.





Provenance

Purchased by the previous owner at the 1961 exhibition.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 June 1992, lot 116, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

The Times, 10 February 1961.

N. Wallis, 'Brave New Age of Bronze', The Observer, 12 February 1961.

Exhibition catalogue, First American Exhibition: Sculpture: F.E. McWilliam, Los Angeles, Felix Landau Gallery, 1963, n.p., no. 14, another cast illustrated.

R. Penrose (intro.), McWilliam, London, 1964, p. 6, pl. 55, another cast illustrated.

D. Ferran, exhibition catalogue, F.E. McWilliam at Banbridge, Banbridge, F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, 2008, p. 25, another cast illustrated.

D. Ferran and V. Holman, The Sculpture of F.E. McWilliam, Farnham, 2012, p. 128, no. 193, another cast illustrated, as 'Triad (Three Men in an Egg)'.



Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, F.E. McWilliam, February - March 1961, no. 5.

Los Angeles, Felix Landau Gallery, First American Exhibition: Sculpture: F.E. McWilliam, February - March 1963, no. 14, another cast exhibited.

Belfast, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and An Chomhairle Ealaion, Ulster Museum, F.E. McWilliam: Retrospective Exhibition, April - May 1981, no. 33, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, May - June 1981; Cork, Crawford Municipal Gallery, July - August 1981; and Derry, Orchard Gallery, September - October 1981.



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