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Swallow, A Door Knocker
Details
Gertrude Hermes (1901-1982)
Swallow, A Door Knocker
brass on a wooden base, excluding wooden base
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
Conceived in 1926.
Swallow, A Door Knocker
brass on a wooden base, excluding wooden base
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
Conceived in 1926.
Provenance
with Michael Parkin Fine Art, London.
Literature
The Studio, An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, Vol. 99, January – June 1930, p. 29, illustrated.
W. Aumonier (ed.), Modern Architectural Sculpture, London, 1930, p. 141, illustrated.
J. Russell (ed.), The Wood Engravings of Gertrude Hermes, Aldershot, 1993, p. 120.
S. Levy and T. Pirsig-Marshall (ed.), exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2009, pp. 72, 159, illustrated.
W. Aumonier (ed.), Modern Architectural Sculpture, London, 1930, p. 141, illustrated.
J. Russell (ed.), The Wood Engravings of Gertrude Hermes, Aldershot, 1993, p. 120.
S. Levy and T. Pirsig-Marshall (ed.), exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2009, pp. 72, 159, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy of Art, Gertrude Hermes R.A., September – October 1981, no. 9, another cast exhibited.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, July – November 2009, exhibition not numbered.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, July – November 2009, exhibition not numbered.
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.
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