ERIC KENNINGTON, R.A. | T.E. LAWRENCE
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May 27, 02:54 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ERIC KENNINGTON, R.A.
1888-1960
T.E. LAWRENCE
painted plaster
height: 42cm., 16½in.
Conceived in 1926-27 and cast in gilded brass in an edition of 2 or 3 and in bronze in an edition of 6. The present work is one of two plaster casts made circa 1926.
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Catherine Kennington, the Artist's daughter
Christie's, London, 26 November 2015, lot 128
London, The Leicester Galleries, Paintings, pastels, drawings and woodcuts illustrating T.E. Lawrence's book 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', February 1927, cat. no.81 (gilded brass cast exhibited)
London, Picture Hire Limited, Eric Kennington, April 1936, cat. no.15 (bronze cast exhibited); with tour to Rusholme, Manchester; Platt Hall, Manchester; and Oxford
London, National Portrait Gallery, T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, December 1988 - March 1989, cat. no.275, illustrated p.199 (bronze cast exhibited)
T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, London, 1935, illustrated frontispiece (another cast)
Charles Grosvenor, An Iconography: The Portraits of T.E. Lawrence, Pasadena, 1988, illustrated pp.73-75 (bronze cast)
Jonathan Black, The Sculpture of Eric Kennington, Much Hadham, 2002, cat. no.21, pp.38-40, 89, illustrated fig.22 (bronze cast)
We are grateful to Dr Jonathan Black for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.