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Bernard Meadows (1915-2005)
Large Relief
signed with monogram; also signed and titled on Artist’s label
attached to the backboard
concrete, heightened with gouache
40 by 33cm.; 15½ by 13in.
Executed in 1958, the present work is unique.
Provenance
Acquired by David Bowie, November 1993
Literature
Alan Bowness, Bernard Meadows: Sculpture and Drawings, The
Henry Moore Foundation in Association with Lund Humphries,
London, 1995, cat. no.BM49, illustrated p.140 (bronze version).
This is a unique concrete cast of one of the four bronze panels
produced on this theme by the artist in 1958. A set of the bronze
reliefs is in the collection of the Tate, London.
£ 4,000-6,000
€ 4,700-7,100 US$ 5,300-8,000
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