20th Century British and Irish Art

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Lot 183
  • 183

Bernard Meadows b. 1915

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Description

  • Bernard Meadows
  • Maquette for Large Flat Bird
  • signed with initial and numbered 3/6
  • bronze with a pale green patina
  • height 28cm., 11 in.

Literature

Alan Bowness, Bernard Meadows: Sculptures and Drawings, Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1995, BM43, p.138, illustrated (another cast).

Catalogue Note

Conceived in 1956 and cast in an edition of 6. The plaster model for this work can be seen on one of the shelves in Meadows' Hampstead studio in a photograph illustrated on p.13 of Alan Bowness' book mentioned below.