Lot 178
  • 178

Frederick Edward McWilliam, R.A.

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Frederick Edward McWilliam, R.A.
  • Resistance III
  • signed with initials
  • bronze with light brown patina
  • height: 43cm.; 17in.
  • Conceived in 1962, the present work is unique.

Provenance

Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by Wilfrid A. Evill 8th August 1962 for £225.0.0, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Small Sculpture, July 1962, cat. no.34; 
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition, June - August 1965, cat. no.277 (as Lynn Chadwick, Eagle).

Literature

Roland Penrose, McWilliam, Alec Tiranti Ltd., London, 1964, illustrated pl.86.

Condition

Dirt has gathered in some of the crevices but the sculpture is in good overall condition. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 5381 if you have any questions regarding the present work
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Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Dr Denise Ferran for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. The present work will be included in Dr Ferran and Dr Valerie Holman's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Frederick McWilliam's work to be published by Lund Humphries in association with The Henry Moore Foundation, 2013, as catalogue number 242.