MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE

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MODERN SCULPTURE

Michael Ayrton –, British

Ayrton was a sculptor, painter, printmaker andwriter. He started his career as a painter in theNeo-Romantic tradition. His contributions to‘The Spectator’ during - were important inthe acceptance of Neo Romanticism. From

Ayrton traveled widely in Italy.He began to sculpt in bronze in the early

s receiving some advice from Henry Mooreand visited Cumae in – and Greece in, turning to Greek myth as his principalsource of inspiration, particularly the legends ofDaedelus and Icarus, the Minotaur and theimage of the maze. His powerful style sought toreinterpret mythological ideas in terms of thefigure.

His reinvention of the achievements andtechniques of antiquity and his experimentsusing Perspex in reflective sculpture place himamongst the most original sculptors of his time.

Web Bronze steel and threads, figure x . x cmplus stand of . cm, overall . cmSigned and numbered /Literature: Peter Canon-Brookes, Michael Ayrton

An Illustrated Commentary,Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, page no (illustrated)

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Reg Butler–

Butler was a sculptor and teacher who trained asan architect. After an initial career inarchitecture he started working as a sculptor in, after working as a blacksmith duringWWII, joining Henry Moore as an assistant.

His first one man exhibition was held at theHanover Gallery, London, in . The followingyear he preceded Kenneth Armitage in receivingThe Gregory Fellowship awarded by LeedsUniversity. It was during his three years in Leedsthat he fully developed his sculptural style. Heabandoned his past methods of welding in ironas he felt that he was being overwhelmed by thematerial itself. He turned instead to modeling inclay or plaster and casting the models in a thinlightweight bronze, of which the work in thisexhibition is a good example.

In , Butler (alongside Lynn Chadwick)was among the eight sculptors chosen torepresent Britain at the Venice Biennale, wherehis work was highly acclaimed.

Woman on Boat Bronze x x . cm, ¾ x x ½ insSigned with monogram and numbered anddated /

Provenance: Curt Valentin Gallery, New York,February

The Estate of Vera G List

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Estella Campavias–, British

Estella Campavias was of Spanish extraction andwas brought up in Turkey. She began her careerin as a ceramicist, aiming to produce worksof art rather than craft. After a period ofreflection and experimentation she turned tosculpture.

Her work is figurative with a strong tendencytowards abstraction. The forms are flowing andsmooth, an expression that shows us the innercharacter of the human or animal form depictedrather than the details of the exterior.

Estella received no formal art training whichgives the work a unique and intuitive character.

Head cBronze x x cmStamped with the estate stamp and numberedfrom the edition of

Cast by Morris Singer

Reclining Figure cBronze x x cmStamped with the estate stamp and numberedfrom the edition of

Cast by Morris Singer Illustrated

La Joie de Vivre Bronze, x x cmSigned with initials and numbered from theedition of of which only about castCast by T Schroeder, Germany forSicommerce AG, Zurich

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Frank Dobson–, British

Dobson was a sculptor, draughtsman andpainter. His first sculptures were very stylised. In he was selected by Wyndham Lewis as theonly sculptor of the ‘Group X’ exhibition. Hispost WW carvings are very angular andVorticist in style, reminiscent of Gaudier-Brzeska and Epstein. From the mid twenties heconcentrated mainly on the female nude,influenced by French sculptor Aristide Maillol.

Kneeling Torso Bronze, height ¾ insSigned Dobson in base and numbered from theedition of + a/pOne cast was made during the artist’s lifetime andthe rest of the edition and the artist proofs werecast from the original plaster by Morris Singer in with the permission of the Dobson estate.Literature: Neville Jason and Lisa Thompson-

Pharoah, The Sculpture of FrankDobson, page number

Kneeling Torso Plaster, height ¾ insSigned Dobson in base IllustratedThe original plaster created by Dobson fromwhich the casts above were taken.Literature: Neville Jason and Lisa Thompson-

Pharoah, The Sculpture of FrankDobson, page number

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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska –, French

Gaudier began sculpting in Paris in ,inspired by Rodin, rather than by the avant-garde artists of his own generation. When hemoved to London in his knowledge ofcontemporary developments in sculpture wasslight. After a meeting with Epstein, Gaudierstarted to pursue a more experimental direction.The work in this exhibition was conceivedshortly after meeting Epstein and already showsthis influence.

Head of a Young Man Composite cast stone x . x cm plus baseOne of stone casts made by Fiorini from amould taken from the original sandstone carvingc.. Three casts are recorded as being in publicmuseums and a further two at Kettle’s Yard,Cambridge. The rest are in private collections.Provenance: Private Collection, LondonLiterature: Evelyn Silber & David Finn, Gaudier

Brzeska, Life and Art no , illustratedplate

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Eric Gill–, British

Eric Gill was a prolific artist in many disciplinesbut wanted to be remembered on his grave as astone carver. The strength of his work lies in theuse of the direct carving technique. In hecarved his first sculpture and unknowingly re-instated the direct carving technique by carvingwhat he had in his head straight into the stone.At this time sculptors would usually model inclay, cast in plaster and use this model to let acraftsman either carve it or cast it in bronze. Gillhowever carved directly into the stone and wasmost likely the first sculptor to do so since theMiddle Ages. Occasionally he modelled inplasticine and had casts made either in plaster orbronze.

Madonna and Child I /Painted plaster, height . cmSigned with initials and numbered on baseLiterature: Judith Collins, Eric Gill – The Sculpture,

London page number

Here Judith Collins describes how anedition of plaster casts were made froman original plasticine model. It is notclear how many plaster casts weremade, each of which was individuallypainted. The plasticine model was alsoused to make an edition of in bronze.

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Barbara Hepworth–, British

Hepworth discovered her passion for art as ayoung child and, in , entered Leeds Schoolof Art. Two years later she was admitted to theRoyal College of Art in London, from which shegraduated in . While on a postgraduatefellowship in Italy, Hepworth worked withmaster stone carvers and met the Britishsculptor John Skeaping, whom she latermarried. Back in London, Hepworth was one ofa small group of pioneering sculptorscommitted to exploring abstraction. She had herfirst solo exhibition in and, by the earlys, had developed her mature style: asensuous kind of organic abstraction, sometimesincorporating strings, wires, coloured paint, orholes piercing the sculpted form.

Three Forms (Extra Eye) Polished bronzeHeight . cm, ins excluding stone baseSigned and numbered /Exhibited: Marlborough Fine Arts, BarbaraHepworth Recent Work February – March, ,number

Provenance: Marlborough Fine Arts purchased byAvraham Havillo, Israel, from whomacquired by Wolseley Fine Arts

Literature: Alan Bowness, The CompleteSculpture of Barbara Hepworth -, London number ,illustrated page

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David Jones –, British

David Jones trained at the Camberwell School of Art and followingthe st World War, the Westminster School. In he met Eric Gillat Ditchling, where he was introduced to wood engraving.

Jones’s early engravings such as Family before Crucifix arereminiscent of Gill’s medieval style but by Jones had found hisvoice as an engraver and the two blocks for the humorous polemicbook Libellus Lapidum containing verses by Douglas Pepler arehighly original works incorporating Art Deco ideas. The works,although conceived in two dimensions, show a sound grasp ofspatial awareness and the heavily carved sections of the LibellusLapidum blocks are very sculptural in form.

(i)Family before Crucifix and (ii) Man in Pub Boxwood partly gessoed, . x . cmUsed in The Game . Later cut into two blocks with Family beforeCrucifix used in St Thomas Aquinas Calendar both published bySt. Dominic’s PressLiterature: Douglas Cleverdon, The Engravings of David Jones, Clover

Hill Editions Reference E

View of Stairs Boxwood partly gessoed, . x .cm plus standUsed in Libellus Lapidum, St Dominic’s Press

Literature: Douglas Cleverdon, The Engravings of David Jones, CloverHill Editions Reference E

Expulsion of the Money Changers Boxwood partly gessoed, . x. cmUsed in Libellus Lapidum, St. Dominic’s Press

Literature: Douglas Cleverdon, The Engravings of David Jones, CloverHill Editions Reference E

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Giacomo Manzù –, Italian

Manzù’s oeuvre is characterised by recurringthemes like the young girl on a chair, thecardinals, mother and child and the ice skater. Inall sculptures he made of skaters the figuredepicted is female, wearing a short skirted dress,standing still after or before skating. Althoughher feet look as if she is wearing skates, thesehave actually been omitted in the sculpture.Models for the skaters were Inge Schabel, dancerat the Salzburg Opera, and her sister Sonia.

Pattinatrice (Ice Skater) c.BronzeHeight . cmSigned and stamped with the foundry mark“Manzù Fonderie Maf Milano” on the baseThe work is recorded in the Manzù archive

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John Milne –, British

Milne’s earliest sculptures were modeled interracotta, using the pottery kiln at Salford RoyalTechnical College, were he studied art. He spenttime in Paris, studying at the Académie de laGrande Chaumière where Zadkine was one ofthe teachers. Milne however was more inspiredby artists like Dobson, Maillol and Brancusi.

Milne was one of the most interestingsculptors associated with St Ives and BarbaraHepworth, for whom he was an assistant forsome years, and the English Post War avantgarde movement. His work of the s owedmuch to the St Ives milieu in which he lived butlater Milne was influenced by the landscape andarchitecture of Greece, Persia and North Africa.As a result his mature work has a moreinternational flavour.

Horus Polished bronze, height cm plus base of . cmSigned, dated and numbered /Literature: Peter Davies, The Sculpture of John

Milne, Belgrave Gallery, London and StIves, , reference JM, page

(illustrated)

Cylindrical Form Polished bronze, height . cm + base of cmSigned, dated and numbered / IllustratedLiterature: Peter Davies, The Sculpture of John

Milne, Belgrave Gallery, London and StIves, , reference JM, page

(illustrated)

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Henry Moore –, British

This is one of only two woodblocks Moore made. They were cutwhen Moore was at the Royal College of Art in London and theywere designed for the first issue of the quarterly magazine TheIsland which appeared on June , edited by Josef Bard for thegroup of artists calling themselves “The Islanders”. LeonUnderwood, Gertrude Hermes and Eileen Agar were othermembers. After only four issues the publication ceased.

There were no editions of the woodblocks and they thengathered dust in Moore’s studio until Gerald Cramer visited Moorein to discuss various prints by the artist which he waspublishing. He noticed the blocks and was intrigued when Mooretold him their history. Cramer took the blocks to the master printer

Jacques Frélaut in Paris to have a few trial proofs pulled and thesewere so successful that Moore and Cramer decided to publisheditions of impressions of each which were sold out onsubscription

Figures Sculpture Cancelled woodblock for engraving (Cramer ). x . cmLiterature: Joseph Bard (Editor), The Island Volume One,

Hawthorne Press page , (engraving illustrated)Gérald Cramer, Henry Moore Catalogue of Graphic Work,Volume , Geneva . No (engraving illustrated)

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Leon Underwood–, British

Underwood was one of the th century’s mostoriginal and versatile artists. He trained at theRegent Street Polytechnic, Royal College of Artand the Slade. In he set up his own schoolknown as the Brook Green School where hetaught drawing, printmaking and sculpture.Some of his pupils there were Henry Moore,Blair Hughes-Stanton, Eileen Agar and GertrudeHermes.

Although Underwood tended to take up,master and then abandon forms of expression,he remained faithful to sculpture throughout hislife. In the post-war period he developed his newways of conceiving and casting sculpture. ThePursuit of Ideas was the most important publiccommission in the post-war period.

The Pursuit of Ideas Bronze with dark brown patina on a wooden base, x x cm Inscribed Leon U ’. L.C.C. Maquette Hilgroveestate, edition of sevenThe sculpture is a maquette for the sculpturecommissioned by the London County Council forthe Hilgrove estate in Swiss Cottage, Londonwhich was completed in .Literature: Ben Whitworth, The Sculpture of Leon

Underwood, The Henry MooreFoundation in Association with LundHumphries , number page

Christopher Neve, Leon Underwood,Thames and Hudson, page

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Peter Watts–

Peter Watts was a sculptor in stone, wood andbronze. He studied at the Bath School of Art in, at the City and Guilds School of Art inKennington and under P. Lindsey Clark inLondon.

Peter’s work stands in the tradition of Gilland Maillol with strong classical influences. Heused the direct carving technique, mainly instone and occasionally in wood, particularly inhis later years.

Watts was an artist who was most at homewith religious and classical subjects. During his year career he made a number of carvedstations of the cross and statues for variouschurches in the UK and in the USA where he hasa strong following. In his last years a series ofbronze casts were made from some of hismaquettes.

Girl Kneeling Cedar wood, height cmSigned with monogram IllustratedLiterature: Peter Watts, Chipping from Memory,

Wolseley Fine Arts with acatalogue raisonné by Richard andChristine Watts number (where itssize is incorrectly stated).

Girl Picking Flowers (Persephone) Bronze, . x x cm Signed and numbered from the edition of

Bronzes numbered – cast & and –

by Morris SingerLiterature: Peter Watts, Chipping from Memory,

Wolseley Fine Arts with acatalogue raisonné by Richard andChristine Watts number B.

Mother and Child c.Bronze, x x . cmEstate stamp, numbered from the edition of

Cast by Morris Singer

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CONTEMPORARYSCULPTURE

Maurice Brams b. , Belgian

Maurice Brams lives and works in Belgium. Heworks in stone, wood and bronze. He uses thedirect carving technique for his pieces in stoneand, uniquely, his pieces in polished bronze arecarved from solid blocks of metal.

Brams uses highly abstracted female formsto express the theme of evolution – fertility,fertilisation, embryo. He concentrates on theessential.

He exhibits in Belgium, The Netherlands,Luxembourg and Switzerland as well as withWolseley Fine arts at TEFAF, Maastricht and inLondon.

Couple Lens stone, two pieces each cm highSigned, unique Illustrated

Budding Belgian Bluestone, x . x cmSigned, unique

Engagement Alabaster, two pieces each cm high plus baseSigned, unique

Guided Carved bronze, cm highSigned and numbered /, unique

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Ted Fullertonb. , Canadian

Ted Fullerton was born in Ottawa and grew upin the village of Port Credit. He studied at theOntario College of Art from – followed bya period studying contemporary and pre-Columbian Art in Columbia, South America. Heteaches extensively across Canada and the USA.He is currently Professor of Fine Arts atGeorgian College in Barrie.

His work is in numerous public, corporateand private collections in Canada and abroad.He has exhibited widely in group and solo showsin Canada, the USA, Australia and Europe.

His work is characterised by a close study ofthe psychological condition of man and is oftentouched with a humorous dimension.

Temple Bronze and steel, base . cm and figure cm,overall cm highSigned and numbered from the edition of

Cast by Morris Singer Illustrated

No Part Removed Bronze and steelHeight figures . cm, base cm highSigned and numbered from the edition of

Cast by Morris Singer

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Marko Kratohvil b. , Serbian

Marko Kratohvil has lived and worked in theUnited Kingdom since . He graduated withan MA in Sculpture from the University of Artin Belgrade in . He has exhibited extensivelythroughout Europe and his work is held in bothcorporate and private collections world wide. Heis a member of Royal Society of BritishSculptors.

Marko chooses neither to follow a trend, norbase his work on academicism. His sculpture iswhat is left after the clash between thetraditional and the contemporary. The work ispurified, without any narrative, and distinctlyexpressive.

Iron Sculpture /, Steel, cm highUnique Illustrated

Untitled, Steel, x cmUnique

Interaction /, Steel, x cmUnique

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Fiore de Henriquezb. , Italian/British

Born in Trieste, Italy, Fiore spent the early war period inVenice mixing with art students, where she met theAccademia’s head of sculpture, Arturo Martini. Around she moved to Cortina d’Ampezzo where hersculpture career began, practicing wood caving andportraiture. On liberation in she moved to Florencewhere she became studio assistant to Antonio Berti andwhere she learnt clay modeling and bronze casting. Shealso studied marble carving in Carrara. In shetravelled to London on an impulse and made portraitcommissions and exhibited at the RA.

From her London debut in , and a specialcommission for the Festival of Britain, for which she wasinvited by Epstein, Fiore became an internationallyknown sculptor, with numerous public and privatecommissions. The list of sitters is long and eminent,including Carlo Levi, Igor Stravinsky, Augustus John(her great friend), Margot Fonteyn, Laurence Olivier,Peter Ustinov, Sibyl Thorndike, Odette Churchill, FieldMarshal Auchinleck, and including President Kennedy,Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and the QueenMother.

La Madonnina Bronze x x cmSigned and numbered from the edition of

Cast in by Fonderia del Chiaro, Pietrasanta, Italy

Japanese Noble Boy Bronze x x cmSigned and numbered from the edition of

Cast in by Fonderia del Chiaro, Pietrasanta, Italy

Johann Strauss Bronze x x cmSigned and numbered from the edition of

Cast in by Fonderia del Chiaro, Pietrasanta, Italy

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Richard Kindersleyb. 1939, British

Richard Kindersley studied lettering andsculpture at Cambridge School of Art and at hisfather’s workshop. In he set up his ownstudio in London. He is now recognised as oneof the foremost experts on lettering in thecountry and has been commissioned in manyprestigious lettering and sculpture projectsusually involving large scale work on buildings.

Richard lectures widely on both thehistorical aspects of architectural lettering andthe present development of lettering. One of hisparticular passions are standing stones and hecollaborated with Wolseley Fine Arts in onan exhibition and tour of ten standing stones tocelebrate the double millennium. For thisexhibition he has made a new standing stone.

Treat the Earth Well Incised Welsh slate, x x . cmThe text is from an old Kenyan Proverb

Illustrated (drawing of stone)

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Dhruva Mistryb, , Indian

Mistry was born in Kanjari, Gujarat in . He studied at thefaculty of Fine Arts MS University of Baroda from – whenhe came to Britain on a travelling British council scholarship. Hetook an MA at the Royal College of Art in –.

From – he worked in Britain where he received manyawards and commissions. He was elected Royal Academician in

and a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in . Hiswork is rich in the imagery of Indian Art but infused also withWestern and Cycladic art forms.

In he returned to India to become Professor, Head ofSculpture and Dean of the faculty of Fine Arts at the University ofBaroda.

Elephant Bronze, . x cmSigned, edition of

Provenance: Nigel Greenwood GalleryEstate of Vera G List

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Ariane Stamb. , Dutch

Ariane Stam studied painting at the ArtAcademy in the Netherlands. She worked as apainter at the beginning of her career, followedby a period of painting and sculpting. Now sheworks exclusively as a sculptor.

Light is very important in Stam’s work.Bronze is always polished and patinated toreflect the light at its best. For several years shehas also worked in alabaster, a type of stone thatcomes alive with light, and more recently inmarble, of which the beautiful crystallinestructure reflects the light in the most amazingway.

Stam’s sculptures refer to nature, with theirorganic forms. She is fascinated by polarity inform: open/closed, fragile and solid, light anddark, straight and round, and vertical andhorizontal are elements often found in her work.

The Tree Sisters Marble cm high on Belgian Bluestone base of cmUnique

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Patricia Volkb. , British

Patricia Volk was born in Belfast and studied art as a maturestudent, graduating in .

Heads are an obsession to her. The “Deity” heads were inspiredby the strong memory of the shapes and colours of pebbles on aScottish beach, combined with the ancient Celtic tradition ofplacing carvings of heads in wells to act as a charm to deter childrenfrom drowning.

The head represents the seat of reason. The expression that ofmeditation and tranquility.

Deity with Closed Eyes Bronze, x x cmSigned and numbered from the edition of

Cast by Morris Singer

Deity with Open EyesBronze, x x cmSigned and numbered from the edition of

Cast by Morris Singer

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Jos van Vreeswijk b. , Dutch

Jos van Vreeswijk is a renowned Dutch artistnow living in Belgium. Initially trained as apainter, since the age of he has worked as asculptor. He carves in marble, Belgian Bluestoneand granite. In recent years he has also producedsmall editions of some of his work in bronze

His work is figurative with the emphasis ofthe development of ideas originating from thefemale form. An important element of his workis the finishing of the surface of the hardmaterial. He combines a highly polished smoothfinish with rough surface which makes hissculpture tactile and beautiful to look at.

He exhibits in the Netherlands and withWolseley Fine Arts at TEFAF Maastricht and inthe UK. After years his work is in collectionsall over the world.

Imagine Bronze, cm high including baseSigned and numbered from the edition of + a/p

Untitled (Torso) Carrara marble, x x cm plus base of blackmarble cm highUnique

Woman Blue Carrara marble, cm high plus baseUnique

MODERN SCULPTURE

Michael Ayrton

Reg Butler

Estella Campavias

Frank Dobson

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Eric Gill

Barbara Hepworth

David Jones

Giacomo Manzù

John Milne

Henry Moore

Leon Underwood

Peter Watts

CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE

Maurice Brams, Belgian

Ted Fullerton, Canadian

Marko Kratohvil, Serbian

Fiore de Henriquez, Italian/British

Richard Kindersley, British

Dhruva Mistry, Indian

Ariane Stam, Dutch

Patricia Volk, British

Jos van Vreeswijk, Dutch

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