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Bernard Meadows (1915-2005)
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Bernard Meadows (1915-2005)

Armed Bust II

Details
Bernard Meadows (1915-2005)
Armed Bust II
signed with monogram (on the underside)
bronze with a brown and polished patina
20 in. (50.8 cm.) wide
Conceived in 1961 and cast in an edition of 6.
Literature
A. Bowness, Bernard Meadows: Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1995, p. 76, no. BM 73, pl. 58, illustrated.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

This is the first sculpture by Meadows to incorporate the polished bronze eye, which the artist used again in his later sculptures. The Arts Council of Great Britain includes the first version of this sculpture without the eye.

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