Lot 189
  • 189

Allen Jones, R.A.

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Allen Jones RA
  • study for big dancer
  • signed and dated 81
  • pencil and coloured pencil
  • 24 by 15cm.; 9½ by 6in.

Provenance

Waddington and Trilby Fine Art

Condition

The work is on wove paper. Artist's pinholes are visible in the corners. There is a media mark, approximately 3cm. long in the lower left quadrant. Presented in a cream mount in a black wooden frame which has sustained some light abrasions.
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Catalogue Note

Jones executed the sculpture, Big Dancer, as a commission for the Weisman Foundation in 1985.