Lot 132
  • 132

Bertram Mackennal

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 AUD
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Description

  • BERTRAM MACKENNAL
  • QUEEN VICTORIA IN HER CORONATION ROBES
  • Signed B. MACKENNAL (on base)
  • Bronze
  • Height: 41cm (excluding base)
  • Conceived in 1897

Provenance

Private collection, New South Wales

Literature

Deborah Edwards, Bertram Mackennal, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007, pp. 34-35 (another cast illus.)

Condition

There is a crack to one corner of the base, approximately 2cm in length and some minor scuff marks to the top of the base. The sculpture itself is in good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

The Queensland Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia hold other casts of this sculpture, executed at the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.