Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale
Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale
Frank Dobson, R.A.
Europa and the Bull
Lot Closed
June 30, 10:03 AM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Frank Dobson, R.A.
1888 - 1963
Europa and the Bull
signed Dobson (on the base)
terracotta
width: 14cm.; 5½in.
height: 10cm.; 4in.
Conceived in 1946, the present is the first of two terracotta casts. A further bronze edition has been cast from a plaster.
We are grateful to the Artist's Estate and Richard Cork for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Elinor Bellingham-Smith, and thence by family descent to John Moynihan, from whom acquired by the family of the present owner in 1999
The Studio, June 1948, vol. 135, p. 187
Francis Watson, 'Frank Dobson. Four Drawings', The Connoisseur, January 1963, illustrated pl. 22 (plaster version)
Neville Jason and Lisa Thompson-Pharoah, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, Lund Humphries, London, 1994, p. 156, illustrated no. 198
Francis Watson, 'Frank Dobson. Four Drawings', The Connoisseur, January 1963, illustrated pl. 22 (plaster version)
Neville Jason and Lisa Thompson-Pharoah, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, Lund Humphries, London, 1994, p. 156, illustrated no. 198