Frederick Edward McWilliam, R.A.

Maquette for Elisabeth Frink

This lot has been withdrawn

Lot Details

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Property from a Distinguished British Collection

Frederick Edward McWilliam, R.A.

1909 - 1992

Maquette for Elisabeth Frink

signed MCW. and numbered 4/5 (on the reverse of the base)

bronze

height (without base): 30cm.; 11¾in.

height (with base): 32.5cm.; 12¾ in.

Conceived circa 1956-7, the present work is number 4 from the edition of 5.

We are grateful to Dr Riann Coulter of the F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge, Co. Down and to Dr Denise Ferran for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Please note this lot has been withdrawn.

Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by a Private Collector in the late 1960s, and thence by family descent to the previous owner
Her sale, Sotheby's London, 18 September 2018, lot 105, where acquired by the present owner

Roland Penrose, McWilliam, Alec Tiranti, London, 1964, illustrated no. 143 (another cast)

Denise Ferran and Valerie Holman, The Sculpture of F.E. McWilliam, Lund Humphries in association with the Henry Moore Foundation, Surrey, 2012, no. 2P, p. 175