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Lot 60
â–²Clare Sheridan: An Art Deco bronze fountain group of four fish signed Clare Sheridan and dated 1938, fish mouths plumbed for water, weathered variegated green patination 122cm.; 48ins high Clare Sheridan (born as Clare Consuelo Frewen; also known as Clare Consuelo Sheridan), was born in London in 1885, the daughter of Moreton Frewen of East Sussex and his American wife, the former Clarita |Clara| Jerome. Her mother was the elder sister of Lady Randolph Churchill. She married Wilfred Frederick Sheridan in 1910; they had three children. Wilfred Sheridan was a Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, who was killed while leading his men at the Battle of Loos in 1915. Her godmother and namesake was Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough. After the death of her second child, Elizabeth, in 1914, Sheridan sculpted a weeping angel as an outpouring for her grief. It was from this piece of art that she discovered an ability for sculpting, and after the death of her husband a year later, she moved from France to London to study under John Tweed and Professor Edouard Lanteri. While visiting America, Sheridan had a love affair with Charlie Chaplin and enjoyed friendships with Princess Margaret of Sweden, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Lady Diana Cooper, Vita Sackville-West and Vivien Leigh. Her famous bust of her first cousin Sir Winston Churchill, can be found at Blenheim Palace, Chartwell, Harrow School and Hastings Town Hall. She enjoyed an amicable relationship with Churchill, though her support for the October Revolution caused them to break ranks politically in the 1920s during which time she was invited by a Soviet Russian trade delegation on a visit to London to travel to Moscow and make busts of notable revolutionaries including Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. The author Robert Service, in his 2009 book, claims that she had an affair with Trotsky who signed and dedicated a painting of himself to her. Sheridan's dalliance with known Soviet agents earned her the suspicions of the Security Service. She earned an MI5 file that noted: |She has conducted herself in a disloyal manner in various foreign countries, adopting a consistently anti-British attitude.| In 1925 Sheridan moved to Algiers, where it was noted by MI5 that |she appeared to be comfortably off and debt-free for the first time in 10 years|. After returning to live in Belmont House in Hastings, Sussex where she died in 1970 at the age of 84, having outlived two of her three children.
Lot 62
Garden Sculpture: Andy Sinclair Durer's Rhino Bronze resin Signed and numbered from an edition of 3 193cm.; by 6ft 4ins high by 259cm.; 8ft 6ins long Andrew has lived in South Africa and worked in Europe and as in this example is influenced by the sculptors of the renaissance. He lists the Earl and Countess of Leicester, Oldham City Council, Christopher Moran of Crosby Hall, publisher Felix Dennis, Georgio Logothetis of Lomar Shipping, Royal Ascot racecourse and Royal Caribbean amongst his clients. He has work in private and corporate collections in the UK, USA, Norway, Greece, Holland and South Africa and has exhibited in London and the Home Counties.
Lot 7
A rare pair of painted bronze and cast iron boot scrapers circa 1840 with opposing bronze griffin monopodiae, set in cast iron oval base 28cm.; 11ins high by 33cm.; 13ins long Most examples are made from cast iron and it is likely that this and the following pair would originally have stood within a covered portico or entranceway of a substantial residence and being made of bronze, they would be less exposed to the vagaries of the British weather.
Lot 70
Isaac Kahn, Born Lithuania 1950 Bird on Chair Bronze Signed and numbered from an edition of 9 155cm.; 61ins high by 55cm.; 21½ins wide by 55cm.; 21½ins deep Isaac Kahn was born in 1950 in Kaunas, Lithuania. When he was 14 he moved to Israel where he enrolled in Art College before moving to Uruguay in 1973 where he continued his studies at the University of Plastic Arts in Montevideo. In 1975 at the age of 25 he presented his first one man exhibition in the exhibition hall of Montevideo where one of his works was purchased by the widow of the President of Uruguay. In 1984 he began working in Italy before settling there in 1991. He opened a gallery in Verona showing his work. He has exhibited widely and his work can now be found in public and private collections in the USA, South America, Israel, Europe, Japan and Korea.
Lot 71
Bill Harling, Born 1946 Someone Bronze Signed and numbered 1 from an edition of 6 70cm.; 27½ins high William Harling was born in Middlesborough and was trained in art, design and sculpture at Maidstone College, graduating in 1969. William has been involved in a variety of commercial, industrial and art projects, including sculptural signage, theatre and rock stage sets, airport furnishings and car design & manufacture. Now a full time sculptor based in Hove, William has exhibited at 'Brighton festival Fiveways Open Studios, has had a one man exhibition at Worthing Museum Art Gallery and displays in various commercial galleries and regional group shows.
Lot 81
â–² David Wynne born 1926 Lovers Norwegian rose marble Signed David Wynne and dated 1968 174cm.; 68½ins high by 104cm.; 41ins wide by132cm.; 52½ins deep David Wynne OBE, 1926-2014 was one of Britain's best loved sculptors of the 20th Century. Educated at Stowe School he then served in the Royal Navy during World War II and read Zoology at Trinity College, Cambridge, before taking up sculpture professionally in 1950. In London alone, Wynne was responsible for a huge number of important public commissions. He carved one of the capital's best-loved animal figures, Guy the Gorilla, in Crystal Palace Park (1961). He sculpted the iconic Boy with a Dolphin at the Chelsea end of Albert Bridge,(1974) and Girl with a Dolphin outside Tower Bridge.(1973). Elsewhere he sculpted the Tyne God fountain in Newcastle upon Tyne; (1968), Christ and Mary Magdalene at Ely Cathedral;(2000) and a Risen Christ for the front of Wells Cathedral, one of his most famous commissions.(1985) His portraits included the Queen and the Prince of Wales, (1970) Sir John Gielgud,(1962), Sir Yehudi Menuhin,(1963), Sir Thomas Beecham (who said the piece reminded him of all the mistakes his orchestra had made in the previous 10 years),(1956), the four Beatles(1964) and the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (whom he introduced to the group), as well as the Derby-winning racehorse Shergar. In 1973 he designed the linked hands on the 50p pieces that marked Britain's entry into the European Community. Some of Wynne's most striking pieces were designed for garden settings. He created works for the Abbey Gardens at Tresco, including Gaia, a sculpture made from South African marble, which has a South African planting around it. The Prince of Wales was so taken by the figure he commissioned a similar piece, called Goddess of the Woods, for his gardens at Highgrove. Equally as versatile in bronze, stone or marble, this unique group of The Lovers, fits into the earlier part of his oeuvre. He made the first maquettes, I-IV for The Lovers in plaster and then bronze in 1964, before revisiting the idea in 1965 Maquette V and 1966 with maquettes VI and the VII which was cast in bronze in an edition of 6. The cover of T. Boase's definitive book David Wynne's Sculpture 1949-1967 shows the plaster Lovers maquette VII with this Norwegian rose marble group in an unfinished state in Wynne's studio. (see picture). Wynne always took particular care in his choice of materials. A commission in 1957 for the façade of the Taylor Woodrow headquarters in London resulted in a distinctive 100 ton block of granite being blasted from a Cornish quarry and being worked on in the rough in situ before being precariously transported to Wynne's studio in Wimbledon. Likewise, when Pepsi Cola gave him carte blanche for a large piece, he spent three weeks in the Rocky Mountains and came out with a plan for a grizzly bear fashioned from a 36-ton block of marble. The beautifully variegated colours of this Norwegian Rose marble act as the perfect counterpoint to the simplicity of line in the piece, whilst on a more simplistic level, the soft glowing pink of the marble demonstrates the colour of love. The group was finally finished in 1970 and shipped to its new home in Chicago, Illinois. Provenance: Christie's, New York, 11th July 2006, lot 219 Literature: David Wynne's Sculpture 1949-1967, T.S.R. Boase , Michael Joseph, 1968, front cover and page 147.
Lot 1318
An EPNS spiraly fluted cocktail stirrer and crusher, 26cm long; a Sheffield plate sugar spoon/crusher; a silver plated novelty straw, filtered spoon, marked Alpacca Eberle; a silver sardine fork, London 1895; a 19th century fork, the haft cast with bronze putti; another similar; other spoons and flatware (10)
Lot 702
Family group of medals, ephemera and related items comprising Great War pair of Medals to 2nd Lieutenant Andrew Smith, King's Own Scottish Borderers, British War Medal and Victory Medal + Field Message Book (Army Book 153), with pencil signature of Andrew Smith and various pencil entries, the cloth cover with pencilled signature of a Captain C Coy, 2nd Batt NZRB with some notes re munitions etc handed over to the Company in April 1918, + Army Book 133 with lists of soldiers in 7 Platoon and with names of casualties crossed out + Field Service Pocket Book + booklet entitled "Prominent Landmarks opposite 2nd Army Front", pub 2nd Army Intelligence Sept 1918 +Message Forms No 9674 with internal double page map "Trenches corrected from information received up to 21-9-18" [Zillebeke to South West, Zonnebeke to North East] + various maps on linen, Germany Sheets 1K, 2K, 1L, all pub Nov 1918, scale 1:100,000; Belgium (Brussels) ND scale 1:100,000; Belgium Sheet 29 NE edition 3, pub 1916 scale 1:20,000; Belgium and France Sheet 29 edition 3 pub May 1917 scale 1:40,000, France Sheet 36 A edition 6, pub December 1917 scale 1:40,000; Belgium Sheet 29 NE Provisional issue edition 3A (local) pub 18-10-18, scale 1:20,000; Belgium Sheet 3 D edition 2 pub September 1918 scale 1:40,000; Ypres edition 3 B (local) pub 15-7-18 scale 1:10,000 + four other paper maps; Lys Valley pub 31-12-17 scale 1:40,000; Passchendaele Ridge pub 1-1-18 scale 1:40,000; Belgium Sheet 21 NB edition 3 B (local) pub 15-10-18 scale 1:20,000 + one other map + some pages from "The Scotsman" Feb 20 1920 with announcement Second Lieutenant A Smith to be a Lieutenant 18th Oct 1919 + WW2 Group of five medals to Sgt Andrew C Smith 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (QEII), + set of miniatures both mounted as worn + Portsmouth City Police Helmet plate, badge and button + Royal Life Saving Bronze Medal to A C Smith dated May 1942 + St John Ambulance Association Medallion to Andrew C Smith + 1948 Year Bar and Badge + sundry other items including German Great War Iron Cross, pair of Great War period S4 L6483 binoculars cased, Great War period Military Issue Compass, Verner's pattern 8 No 91121 dated 1917 in leather case, stamped "C & R Brinsley 1916" etc
Lot 1273
LARGE FRENCH BRONZE - AFTER EMILE PICAULT a large bronze in the classical style, of a winged figure of a lady. In it is inscribed, La Reconnaissance Est a Memoir Du Coeur and mounted on a square plinth. With a plaque which is dated, 11 Juillet 1912, and signed E Picault, with a impressed mark underneath (possibly a foundry mark) 28 3/4ins (73cms) high
Lot 1276
LARGE BRONZE OF CECIL RHODES - JOHN TWEED a full length bronze of Cecil John Rhodes, the figure mounted on a square base. Signed, John Tweed, April 18 and date (difficult to read), and with a letter of provenance. 19ins (49cms) high *John Tweed (1869-1933) was born in Glasgow and executed the national memorial to Lord Kitchener on Horse Guards Parade, and a memorial to Cecil Rhodes in Bulawayo. The letter states, 'This sculptors model of the memorial, erected in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, was given to me in 1964 by his daughter Dr Lendal Tweed in memory of her brother Rathlin John Clinton Tweed (1900-1964), my friend and colleague for many years in India.
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