Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
A Sense of Form: Property from a Private British Collection
Geoffrey Clarke, R.A.
HEAD III
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November 17, 03:06 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Sense of Form: Property from a Private British Collection
GEOFFREY CLARKE, R.A.
1924 - 2014
HEAD III
signed GC, dated '51/4 and numbered 16 (on the underside of the base)
iron on aluminum base
width: 29cm.; 11½in.
height (including base): 13.5cm.; 5¼in.
Conceived in 1951, the present work is unique.
Acquired directly from the Artist by Dr Jeffrey Sherwin
His sale, Christie's, London, Outside In: The Dr. Jeffrey Sherwin Collection, 21 November 2019, lot 12, where acquired by the present owner
Jeffrey Sherwin, Silvano Levy and Tanja Pirsig-Marshall (ed.), British Surrealism in Context: A Collector's Eye, Leeds Museums & Galleries, 2009, illustrated p. 135
Jeffrey Sherwin, From France to England, British Surrealism Opened Up, Northern Artists Gallery Ltd, Bradford, 2014, illustrated p. 130
Judith LeGrove (intro.), Geoffrey Clarke, Sculptor: Catalogue Raisonné, Lund Humphries, London, 2017, no. S38, illustrated p. 29
London, Redfern Gallery, Geoffrey Clark: Recent Sculptures, 1965, no. 51, n.p.
London, Taranman Gallery, Geoffrey Clarke: Early Engraved Work and Iron Sculpture, 9 June - 15 July 1976, no. 31, illustrated in the catalogue n.p.