Benno Schotz

Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve 1892-1978)

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Benno Schotz
Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve 1892-1978)
signed (on the reverse)
1958, bronzed plaster
16in. (40.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

A bronze version of this sculpture was exhibited:
London, Society of Portrait Sculptors, Annual Exhibition, 1960, no.37. Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1960, no. 11. Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council, Sculpture & Drawings by Benno Schotz, Touring Exhibition, 1962-3, no. 19. (illustrated).
Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Annual Exhibition, 1973, no. 49. (illustrated).
Edinburgh, Benno Schotz Retrospective, Touring Exhibition, 1971, no. 69. (illustrated).
Glasgow, Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum, Benno Schotz Portrait Sculpture, 1978, no. 37.
Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Annual Exhibition, 1981, no. 6.
Bronzes of this sculpture are in the collections of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh; The British Broadcasting Corporation, Edinburgh; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum and the family of Hugh MacDiarmid.
See lots. 176-180.

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