Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction

Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction

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PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE WILBUR SMITH FOUNDATION

Frederick Edward McWilliam, R.A.

Kneeling Girl II

Auction Closed

November 15, 03:40 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Frederick Edward McWilliam, R.A.

1909-1992

Kneeling Girl II


signed with initials and numbered 2/5 on the leg

bronze

height: 32cm.; 12½in.

Conceived in 1971, the present work is number 2 from the edition of 5.


All proceeds from this sale will be donated to Wilbur Smith Foundation, for more information please visit www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org

Sale, Sotheby's London, 22nd June 1994, lot 178 (as Nude on One Knee, 1969), where acquired by David Bowie

His sale, Bowie/Collector, Sotheby's London, 11 November 2016, lot 216, where acquired by the present owner

Denise Ferran and Valerie Holman, The Sculpture of F.E. McWilliam, Lund Humphries in association with the Henry Moore Foundation, Farnham, 2012, no.361, illustrated p.152 (another cast)

London, Waddington Galleries, F.E. McWilliam: Sculpture, January 1971 (another cast)

Banbridge, Co. Down, The F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio, F.E. McWilliam at Banbridge, September 2008 - February 2009, illustrated p.95 (another cast)

Drogheda, Co. Louth, The Highlands Gallery, F.E. McWilliam at Banbridge, February - April 2009 (another cast)