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Lot 132

VINCENC VINGLER 1911 - 1981: INJURED HERON 1960s Bronze 49 cm Marked below on tail: "VINGLER" Sculptor Vincenc Vingler studied under Professors Jan Lauda and Karel Štipl at the School of Applied Arts in Prague. He worked as an artist at Unitaria Theater and the Prague Children's Theater, was the head stage set designer at Kladno Theater, and worked with Horácké Theater in Jihlava. He sculpted and drew, focusing on birds and animals. It was not until the end of his life that he created human figures. From 1949 he was a designer at the Czechoslovak Ceramics Factory; he was a member of the Union of Fine Artists and from 1947 a member of Umìlecká Beseda. He held his last solo exhibition at Old Town Hall in 1981. His work is extensively represented in the collection of sculptures and drawings at Prague City Gallery, which hosted a large exhibition of his work at Troja Chateau in 2014.

Lot 141

ZBYNĚK SEKAL 1923 - 1998: UNTITLED 1989 Bronze 20,6 x 31 x 12,2 cm Marked on back: "ZS 2/6" Sekal was a member of the Sixties generation of Central European modernist artists. His oeuvre spans the period from the late 1930s/early 1940s to 1997, when he was no longer able to work just a few short months before his death. As an artist who was fully part of the period unfolding after the end of World War II, when he found youthful inspiration in Surrealism, he is a part of the broad post-avantgarde movement. However, he did not completely identify with any movement, tendencies or groups, and remained a major independent figure. After studying at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague under Professor František Tichý, he soon was among the most interesting Czech artists of the 1950s and 60s. He defected in the late 1960s and from 1970 he lived in Vienna, where his work underwent further remarkable development.

Lot 39

JOSEF MAŘATKA 1874 - 1937: SYMPHONY 1912 Bronze 68,5 cm Marked on plinth on back: "J. Mařatka" Symphony, in which Mařatka materializes his fundamental relationship to music, was created during the period when he was executing monumental sculptures for the Municipal House in Prague (in 1911–1913 he sculpted the larger-than-life statues Drama and Music). In spite of his evident musical talent, young Josef Mařatka decided to study at the School of Applied Arts in Prague under Professor Celda Klouček (1889-1892), moving on toJosef Václav Myslbek’s studio at Prague’s Academy of Fine Artsin 1896. In 1900 he received a scholarship from the Hlávka Foundation for his sculpture Ice Harvesters on the Moldau, and he used the funds to travel to what was then the world center of art – Paris. After a rough start and unable to speak French, he entered the studio of Auguste Rodin, slowly forging a close friendship with the sculptor. It was in fact largely due to Mařatka that a large Rodin exhibition was held in Prague in 1902, which went on to have a fundamental impact on the period’s young generation of artists.Variant II is in the collections of Prague City Gallery (inv. no.: P – 742, plaster, 1913 and inv. no.: P – 1189, bronze, 1913).

Lot 60

A PALM CHANDELIER 1920s-30s Cast bronze, crystal pendants 97 x 60 cm This exceptional Art Nouveau chandelier by Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann retains the form of irregularfloral segments. Palm leaves growing out of the stalk are set with crystal pendants. Eight lightbulbs provide the lighting.

Lot 70

ALFRED ZOFF 1852 - 1927: BEACH WITH BOATS IN BELGIUM 1920s Oil on canvas 27 x 30 cm Signed lower right: "A. Zoff" This painting with a fishing boat and a figure on the beach is an example of the unique painting of Alfred Zoff, one of the leading figures of Austrian Mood Impressionism in the early 20th century. In 1869 Zoff took landscape painting classes at the State Drawing Academy in Graz. By 1880 he had decided on art as a career and was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he studied under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. After his father's death in 1882, his mother moved to Klagenfurt and he would visit often to paint. It remained a favorite location for the rest of his life.He also made occasional trips to Italy and Belgium. He completed his studies in 1890 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Gustav Schönleber, who acquainted him the Barbizon School. After that, he lived in Munich and Krems an der Donau. From 1907, he was a Professor of landscape and still-life painting at the Academy in Graz. He received numerous awards, including a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900). Member of the Künstlerhaus Wien (from 1883) and the Hagenbund (from 1900).

Lot 88

LADISLAV BENEŠ 1883 - 1956: SPEED, STRENGTH, RESISTANCE 1921 Bronze, marble 70 cm Marked on back: "L. BENEŠ" and debossed mark of Brothers Barták Prague. Inscriptions along sides of plinth: "RYCHLOST/ SÍLA/ ODPOR/ VÍTĚZI SOUTĚŽE SPOLEHLIVOSTI ČESKOSLOVENSKEM 1921 - MINISTERSTVO NÁRODNÍ OBRANY" ("Speed / Strength / Resistance / Winner o Sculptor Ladislav Beneš, together with Jan Štursa and Otakar Španiel, can unquestionably be included among the most important exponents of their generation, applying a new understanding of classicism to their work. Beneš composed the sculpture, which was commissioned by the Czechoslovak Ministry of National Defense, in the spirit of a new philosophy as an allegory of movement as represented by female nudes of Speed, Strength and Resistance. The modern era can also be sensed from the automobile, from which the towering sculpted figures are thrust forward.Ladislav Beneš, who studied under Professors Celda Klouèek and Stanislav Sucharda, was a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Artists in 1907–1934 and Umělecká Beseda from 1911. Although unfairly forgotten in his home country, his work has been exhibited in Cologne, Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Munich and Vienna.

Lot 90

BŘETISLAV BENDA 1897 - 1983: THE MOTORCYCLIST 1928 Bronze 25 x 40 x 17 cm Marked on plinth: "B. BENDA" and "1/5" The Motorcyclist is an exceptional and prestigious work of Civilism, an art movement celebrating technical advances. Next to Stefan’s Bugatti and Švec’s Motorcyclist, this is another example from the poetry of civilian life in which the theme of sports and competitions takes center stage. The simple modelling of the motorcycle and the rider in the helmet is remarkable.After studying at the sculpture and stonemasonry school in Hoøice, Bøetislav Benda attended the Academy of Fine Arts and studied under Josef Václav Myslbek, continuing under Jan Štursa in 1919–1922 following an interruption in his studies due to the war. In 1923 he became a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Artists. Influenced by Otto Gutfruend, he gained experience in social art in the 1920s; otherwise his figurative sculptures, which mainly focus on the female body, are categorized as part of the Neoclassicism movement. He primarily worked with bronze and marble, often for public works. Towards the end of his life he collaborated with his son, Milan Benda (*1941).

Lot 92

EMANUEL KODET 1880 - 1954: LILA NIKOLSKÁ 1926 Bronze 87 cm Marked on plinth on right: "E. Kodet" Desire, passion, an ode to the beauty of the female body, a story of dance, capturing graceful curves in motion – Czech sculptor Emanuel Kodet imparted all this with timelessness and lightness in this statue of a prima ballerina. The model for the statue was a real woman, dancer and prima ballerina Lila Nikolska (also known in English as Jelizaveta, Elizaveta or Elisabeth and with the variant spelling Nicolska; born Elizaveta Nikolska de Boulkin). Her dazzling beauty can be found in many artworks, including a poster by Maurice Picaud or in František Drtikol’s The Dancer series.Kodet studied at the ceramic school in Bechynì and under Stanislav Sucharda at the School of Applied Arts inPrague. He resided in Rome for one year and exhibited at the Topiè Salon inPrague. Initially influenced by the symbolism in fin-de-siecle art, his work moved towards the monumentalism formed by Jan Štursa. He has created a number of important works, including the Žižka equestrian statue on Vítkov Hill in Prague-Žižkov, the Žižka Monument in Sudomìø, the Hus Monument in Sušice, and the pilasters on Charles University’s Faculty of Arts building inPrague.His sculptures and statues are dominated by an Art Nouveau view of the world transformed into female figures and nudes. His objects are far from static, masterfully capturing movement and the sensual expression of tension with exquisitely formed female curves.

Lot 93

VINCENC MAKOVSKÝ 1900 - 1966: A BUST OF TOMÁŠ GARRIGUE MASARYK 1930s Bronze on a marble base 42 cm (pedestal: 15 cm)42 cm This bust of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, was created by the important sculptor Vincenc Makovský. After studying painting under Jakub Obrovský and Karel Krattner and sculpting under Bohumil Kafka and Jan Štursa at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1919-1926), he travelled to Paris on a French government scholarship to work under Antoine Bourdelle. He spent World War II in Zlín, where he co-founded the Art School and was the head of the Instrument and Machine Forming department. After the war he settled in Brno-Obøany, where he lived and worked up until his death. He was a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Artists (from 1930) and Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences, was a founding member of the Czechoslovak Surrealist Group and a professor at the University of Technology in Brno (from 1947) and Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (from 1952). He has created a number of public artworks, primarily monuments, mostly in Brno but also around the Czech Republic and abroad. His son, Zdenìk Tomáš Makovský (* 1946), is also a sculptor and architect.

Lot 94

KAREL KOTRBA 1893 - 1938: PORTRAIT OF FRANTIŠEK KUPKA 1928 Bronze, cast from original plaster model 38,5 cm Sculptor Karel Kotrba created a number of portraits of important figures, including those on the art scene (such as Karel Holan, Jaroslav Kvapil, Otokar Březina, Jan Neruda, Václav Vilém Štech). This work is also a very authentic portrait of his friend František Kupka, created when the sculptor resided at the Kupkas’ in Paris in 1927-1928, and it apparently is the only thing he brought back home from the trip.Karel Kotrba originally trained as a stuccoer (in 1912–1913) and attended evening classes in sculpting at the School of Applied Arts in Prague. He fought in World War I and was a POW, returningto Czechoslovakia in 1919 as a French Legionnaire. Immediately after the war he applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and studied medal making under Professor Otakar Španiel, after which he went on a study trip to Paris. In the early 1920s he, Pravoslav Kotík, and classmates Karel Holan and Miroslav Holý joined Umìlecká Beseda. After five years at Umìlecká Beseda, they found themselves at the center of a conflict with the more conservative wing of the association. This conflict escalated in late 1924/early 1925 and they migrated to the Mánes Union of Fine Artists, where in contrast they were viewed as traditionalists. Following a conflict they were expelled in 1930. The name “Ho-Ho-Ko-Ko Social Group” was coined later, according to an anthology written by art aesthetician Bohumil Markalous (not published). Experiences from the war and life on the outskirts, in Prague-Holešovice, were reflected in Kotrba’s work. His sensitivity to social issues can be seen in his chosen themes and in his sculpting style, which is categorized as a part of the Social Art movement of the 1920s. He exhibited abroad at Czechoslovak exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (1930, 1936), Vienna (1934), Brussels (1935) and Stockholm (1936).Plaster copes of Portrait of František Kupka is included in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague and GASK – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region.

Lot 441

Small collection of five various silver and bronze medallions

Lot 100

Bronze tray Japanese, Meiji, with inlaid copper showing a bird on a tree within a weaved border, signed Murakami Eijiro, 45cm diameter

Lot 110

Two similar recumbent lions 19th Century, one bronze and the other cast metal, 24cm

Lot 57

A 19th century bronze desk letter stand Formed as a rabbit with a shotgun hunting a boar. 11 cm high. CONDITION REPORTS: Some tarnishing, gun slightly loose to rabbit's hand, general wear.

Lot 65

A pair of gilt and patinated bronze vases Each of classical form, decorated in the round with various figures and mythical beings. Each 21.5 cm high. (2) CONDITION REPORTS: Some patination wear/loss, some chipping/fritting to bases, general wear.

Lot 200

An interesting box of country house items to include brass door knocker, decorative antique French gilt bronze wall sconces/curtain tie-backs, coloured glass finials with brass threads, a box of old coins, old photos, etc

Lot 10

Auguste de Wever (1836-1910) Pair of Silvered Bronze Figures of Jesters, inscribed signatures, tallest 32.4cm high. (2)

Lot 143

Bronze figure of a dancing girl on marble plinth. Condition reports are not available for this auction

Lot 267

Buddhest Bronze figure of a goddess 17cm high Condition reports are not available for this auction

Lot 271

Bronze Buddha, 20.5cm high Condition reports are not available for this auction

Lot 83

Pair of Japanese champleve bronze vases. Condition reports are not available for this auction

Lot 758

A BRONZE MODEL OF A BULLDOG

Lot 826

A MINIATURE BRONZE MODEL OF A GOOSE

Lot 829

A MINIATURE BRONZE MODEL OF A GOOSE

Lot 836

A PAIR OF SMALL BRONZE GEESE FIGURES

Lot 584

A POSSIBLY YUAN DYNASTY BRONZE METAL PLAQUE WITH FOUR CHARACTER MARK

Lot 587

A CHINESE BRONZE VASE WITH GILT BRONZE OVERLAY DESIGN, MARKS TO BASE

Lot 588

A BRONZE AND WHITE METAL MOUNTED MINIATURE BUDDHA MODEL

Lot 637

A HEAVY BRONZE FIGURE OF AN ARAB ON A CAMEL

Lot 236

A COLLECTION OF SILVER, PLATE AND OTHER ITEMS INCLUDING AN EPERGNE the German .800 standard silver includes; a set of ten foliate coffee spoons, 127g; five table knives, eleven dessert knives and six tea knives all with .800 foliate handles and steel blades; an open face keyless pocket watch; a plated epergne with four trumpet-shaped vases on a round base; a fluted round box and cover; a medallion engraved 'Villers-Au-Bois 14 Mai 1905'; a bronze round medallion depicting the three graces(?) and other items

Lot 278

A CHINESE IRON AND PATINATED BRONZE TEAPOT the lid decorated with bats, the swing handle inlaid with white metal, the body with 'basket-weave' decoration, signed to underside of lid, 20cm high including handle

Lot 287

A BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED DEITY 14cm high

Lot 411

* AUGUSTUS JOHN OM RA (BRITISH 1878 - 1961), THE PORTRAIT OF SUNITA oil on canvas, signed 53.5cm x 43cm Framed and under glass. Note: This lot is accompanied by a hand written letter of authentication (dated 4th March 2019) from Rebecca John, artist, grand-daughter of Augustus John and the leading authority on the work of her grandfather. Inscribed on canvas verso: "Property of Sophie Fedorovitch, 22 Bury Walk, Chelsea SW3, London". Sophie Fedorovitch was a Russian born theatrical designer who worked with ballet choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton from his first choreographed ballet in 1926 until her accidental death in 1953. Fedorovitch died in a gas explosion at her home (known as "the Gothic Box") at 22 Bury Walk on 25th January 1953. Two old printed labels verso, one explaining the background to the portrait and the other stating the picture to be "Property of Mary Smeaton or Scott". Augustus John became acquainted with Jacob Epstein at the New English Art Club after Epstein moved from Paris to London. He produced several drawings of Epstein and two etchings. Epstein later modelled a bronze head of John’s son Romily, which is part of the Garman Ryan Collection followed by a stone version and a Bronze head of Augustus in 1916. Although the two artists encouraged each other, they had a prickly friendship which animated their portraits of each other. This was probably further exacerbated by John’s reputation of having a fiery and rebellious temperament, prone to violent mood swings. Augustus John lead a notoriously promiscuous lifestyle and "fathered numerous children with nearly as many different mothers". "Sunita" was originally from Kashmir, a Muslim who married Ahmed Peerbhoy, a millionaire of Bombay, but sometime in the early 1920s she came to England with her son Enver and younger sister Anita Patel. The sisters joined a troupe of magicians known as the Maysculine Brothers. Sunita developed a persona as an Indian mystic and fortune teller and became widely known as Princess Sunita. Jacob Epstein may have met Sunita at the British Empire Exhibition, where the exotic foreign displays intrigued him, or possibly through his friend Matthew Smith (1879 - 1959). In 1925 Epstein invited Sunita, Enver and Anita to live at his home at Guilford Street in London with the full agreement of his wife Margaret. Mrs Epstein was trying to end her husband's affair with Kathleen Garman by encouraging him into affairs with other women. Sunita had become Epstein's favourite model and she posed, often alone but sometimes with her son, for numerous drawings and sculptures by Epstein until 1931. Jacob Epstein was apparently furious that John had encouraged "Sunita" to sit for a portrait and when John told him that he wanted Sunita to sit for him again, Epstein refused to allow it. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse. He then developed a style of portraiture that was imaginative and often extravagant, catching an instantaneous attitude in his subjects."

Lot 1176

1923 Worplesdon Golf Club Scratch Mixed Foursomes Medal - engraved on the reverse "Miss E.E Helme And C.O Hezlet 1923" - 2 leading players of the day with Eleanor Helme winning a bronze medal in the 1924 ladies open championship at Portrush and many other accomplishments and Charles Hazlet being a runner up in the 1914 amateur golf championship and was in the British Walker cup team in 1924 26 and 28 as well as other notable successes in the Irish and Welsh amateur Championships

Lot 1

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)John Fitzgerald Kennedy (American, 1917-1963), the 35th president of the United StatesSignedBronze24cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 10

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Joan of Arc, considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years~ War, and was canonised as a Roman Catholic saint, with three other unknown headsOne signedAll plaster29cm high; 37cm high; 36cm high; 17cm high (5)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 11

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)The Three GracesAll signed and dated 1976All BronzeEach 75cm high (4)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)Although originally designed to be three mourners consoling each other, these actually emerged more as three dancing figures using the artist herself as a model. Brilliant conspired with engineer John Yardley, who was in charge of the team who first put a man on the moon, to make six feet figures of the three graces glide around a ten foot pool to the music of Bach.

Lot 12

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Christina Noble OBE (Irish, b. 1944), children~s rights campaigner, charity worker and writer; A Miscarriage of Psychiatry; The Anonymous LadyNoble is signed and dated 1961All plaster 28cm high; 36cm high; 59cm high (4)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 13

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian, 1898-1948), film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage; Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Russian, 1893-1930), poet, playwright, artist, and actor, becoming renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement; Baby Bernstein (Leonard Bernstein, American, 1918-1990), composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist)Two signed and Bernstein dated 1959All plaster40cm high; 54cm high; 21cm high (4)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 14

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Barbara Rose, Australian grand-niece of Fredda BrilliantSigned and dated 1961Bronze35cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 15

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)OraSigned and dated indistinctlyBronze, wall plaque21cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 16

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Helena Florence Normanton, QC (1882-1957), the first woman to practise as a barrister in EnglandSigned and dated 1955Plaster55cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)Normanton was also the first woman to obtain a client~s divorce, lead a murder trial, conduct a trial in America and appear at the High Court and the Old Bailey. She was one of the first two female King~s counsel and she also campaigned for women~s rights and suffrage

Lot 17

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Nadia Nerina (South African, 1927-2008), prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet; Nita Massine, Furriers wife; unknown headOne signed and dated 1968Two plaster and one resin 44cm high; 51cm high; 42cm high, with three of Brilliant~s tools (7)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 18

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Anton Chekhov (Russian, 1860-1904), playwright and short-story writerSigned and dated 1968Bronze83cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)Brilliant wanted to convey Chekov as a writer, a doctor and to include reference to The Seagull, she also knew that because he suffered from tuberculosis he always enjoyed fresh air. Her models for the competition for a statue of Chekhov for Chekhov Boulevard in Moscow, for which this is one, all depict him in his doctor~s smock, on light airy pedestals with the seagull hovering above. When invited, it was strongly implied that she would certainly win the competition and with weak opponents she felt certain of the outcome however, the result in fact was that none of the applicants were chosen. Her friend and fellow sculptor Mr. Neroda remarked ~Do you think we Russians are going to let a foreign sculptor make a statue of our Chekhov? Not even if he were the best in the world~

Lot 19

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Dr Francis Warner, poet, author and Don of St Peter~s College, Oxford University; Sir Maurice Bowra CH, FBA (1898-1971), English classical scholar, literary critic and academic; Galya Yevtushenko, wife to the poet Yevgeny YevtushenkoAll signed, two dated 1966 and 1962 respectivelyAll plaster47cm high; 41cm high; 48cm high (4)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 2

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Mahatma Gandhi (Indian, 1869-1948), two small maquettes. Gandhi was an activist and leader of the Indian independence movement against British colonial rule, one a miniature version of the bronze seated Gandhi in Tavistock Square; one walking, as submitted to the Gandhi Memorial Committee Signed and walking Gandhi dated 1963Both resin28cm high; 30cm high (4)With a framed photograph of Brilliant with three versions of Gandhi sculptures, also with a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 20

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Duncan Grant RA (1885-1978), British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets and costumes and a member of the Bloomsbury Group; Duncan Max Meldrum (Australian, 1875-1955), Scottish-born Australian painter, known as the founder of Australian Tonalism; Teresa Topolski, daughter of the painter Feliks Topolski RA All signed and dated 1975, 1941 and 1951 respectively All plaster47cm high; 43cm high; 37cm high (4)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 21

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Three Winged Figures, Prometheus, Christ, IcarusSigned and dated 1969Bronze122cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)This bronze is a symbol of restoration, through learning and ingenuity man resurrects and Brilliant says ~Whether as Prometheus or Christus or Icarus man will always rise again~

Lot 22

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Church Doors All plaster18cm high, 53 x 38cm; 30.5 x 23.5cm; 21 x 16cm; 20.5 x 15.5cm; 26 x 51cm (7)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 23

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Sir Isaac James |Ike| Hayward (1884-1976), Trade unionist and local politician; Lord Elwyn Jones (Welsh, 1909-1989), barrister and Labour politicianBoth signed and dated 1961 and 1977 respectivelyPlaster; resin57cm high; 66cm high (3)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 24

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Sahibzada Mohammad Ali Bogra (East Pakistani, 1909-1963), third Prime Minister of Pakistan; Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894-1983), an Indian businessman and member of the Birla FamilyBoth signed and dated 1955Both plaster57cm high; 72cm high (3)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 25

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Dr Francis Warner, poet, author and Don of St Peter~s College, Oxford UniversitySignedBronze47cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)Brilliant writes of her frustrations in achieving this sculpture and of having her artistic flow interrupted by his removal of a wisdom tooth! However she describes him as ~a sensitive poet. His poetry moves in harmonious colour with the lyrical and rhythmical stanzas~.

Lot 26

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)The struggle for GoaSigned and dated 1955Bronze33cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)This sculpture refers to the desire of the people of Bombay to ~liberate~ Goa from Portuguese rule and incorporate it with India. Brilliant was caught up in the unrest, had stones thrown at her in her car and had to flee when the crowds outside the town hall were fired upon by the government. Of this sculpture she stated ~the artist~s work is to express the environment he lives in as well as predict the future~.

Lot 27

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Jozef Adam Zygmunt Cyrankiewicz (Polish, 1911-1989), Polish Socialist and after 1948 Communist politician; Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Ukranian, 1814-1861), poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographerBoth signed and one dated 1957Plaster; resin59cm high; 31cm high (3)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 28

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Carl Bert Albert (1908-2000), American lawyer and politician; Unknown gentlemanBoth signed and dated and 1954 respectivelyPlaster; resin58cm high; 59cm high (3)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 29

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Pandit Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru) (1889-1964), freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of India, standing figure; Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (Indian, 1896-1974), Indian nationalist, diplomat, and politician, a half face wall plaqueBoth signed, one dated 1985 and one 1949 respectivelyResin; plaster79cm high; 28 x 24 cm (4)With a framed photograph of Nehru with the bust, also with a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 3

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Diana, granddaughter of The Lord Marks of Broughton, founder of Marks and SpencerSigned and dated 1960Bronze49cm high (2)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

Lot 30

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Fatehsinghrao Prataprao Gaekwad (1930-1988), The Maharaja of Baroda (1951-1988)Signed and dated 1954Bronze69cm high (3)With a framed photograph of Brilliant and the Maharaja with the bust, also with a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)The Maharaja was a politician and a cricketer who represented Baroda in the Ranji Trophy between 1946 and 1958, he also wrote the book The Palaces of India in 1980. Brilliant was entranced by his combination of masculinity and beauty and felt him to be an incarnation of Apollo and found a close resemblance to a greek marble of Alexander the Great.

Lot 31

‡Fredda Brilliant (Polish, 1903-1999)Satyananda Stokes (born Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr.) (American, 1882-1946), introduced apple cultivation to the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh; An American Sailor (Ward King); Minh (Vietnamese)All signed and dated 1974, 1944 and 1959 respectivelyAll plaster70cm high; 80cm high; 55cm high (4)With a book: Fredda Brilliant, Biographies in Bronze (New York: Shapolsky Books, 1986)

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