Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Property from a British Private Collection
Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934)
Mother and Child
Auction Closed
July 5, 11:37 AM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934)
British, 1876
Mother and Child
plaster, painted terracotta colour
85cm., 33½in.
Isabel McAllister (Alfred Gilbert's assistant and biographer);
bequeathed to Miss Ida Cruttwell Abbott;
Adrian Bury (Alfred Gilbert's nephew);
by descent to his nephew Air Chief Marshal Sir John Barraclough, KCB CBE DFC AFC;
Thence by descent to the present owner
bequeathed to Miss Ida Cruttwell Abbott;
Adrian Bury (Alfred Gilbert's nephew);
by descent to his nephew Air Chief Marshal Sir John Barraclough, KCB CBE DFC AFC;
Thence by descent to the present owner
A. Bury, Shadow of Eros, London 1954, pp. 7, 76, 80, pl. IV;
R. Dorment, Alfred Gilbert, New Haven and London, 1985, pp. 25-26, figs. 6-7;
R. Dorment, Alfred Gilbert: Sculptor and Goldsmith, exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1986, p. 99, no. 4
R. Dorment, Alfred Gilbert, New Haven and London, 1985, pp. 25-26, figs. 6-7;
R. Dorment, Alfred Gilbert: Sculptor and Goldsmith, exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1986, p. 99, no. 4