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Black Crab
Details
Bernard Meadows, R.A. (1915-2005)
Black Crab
bronze with a black patina
16 ¼ in. (41.2 cm.) high
Conceived circa 1951-52, and cast in an edition of 8 plus 1 artist's cast.
Black Crab
bronze with a black patina
16 ¼ in. (41.2 cm.) high
Conceived circa 1951-52, and cast in an edition of 8 plus 1 artist's cast.
Provenance
with Gimpel Fils, London.
Literature
H. Read, exhibition catalogue, A British Vision of World Art, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 1993, no. 133, pl. 134, illustrated.
A. Bowness, Bernard Meadows: Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1995, pp. 39,136, pl. 18, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Blast to Frieze: British Art in the Twentieth Century, Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, 2002, pp. 156, 323, no. 107, illustrated.
Lord Harewood (intro.), exhibition catalogue, The Modern Show: British Art from Private Collections 1908-1958, Leeds, Harewood House, 2006, p. 31, illustrated.
S. Levy and T. Pirsig-Marshall (ed.), exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2009, p. 185, illustrated.
J. Sherwin, From France to England, British Surrealism Opened Up, Bradford, 2014, pp. 5, 136, illustrated and detail illustrated on the cover.
A. Bowness, Bernard Meadows: Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1995, pp. 39,136, pl. 18, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Blast to Frieze: British Art in the Twentieth Century, Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, 2002, pp. 156, 323, no. 107, illustrated.
Lord Harewood (intro.), exhibition catalogue, The Modern Show: British Art from Private Collections 1908-1958, Leeds, Harewood House, 2006, p. 31, illustrated.
S. Levy and T. Pirsig-Marshall (ed.), exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2009, p. 185, illustrated.
J. Sherwin, From France to England, British Surrealism Opened Up, Bradford, 2014, pp. 5, 136, illustrated and detail illustrated on the cover.
Exhibited
Leeds, City Art Gallery, A British Vision of World Art, November 1993 - February 1994, no. 133.
Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, Blast to Frieze: British Art in the Twentieth Century, September 2002 - January 2003, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Tolouse, Les Abattoirs, February - May 2003.
Leeds, Harewood House, The Modern Show: British Art from Private Collections 1908-1958, 2006, exhibition not numbered.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, July - November 2009, exhibition not numbered.
Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, Blast to Frieze: British Art in the Twentieth Century, September 2002 - January 2003, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Tolouse, Les Abattoirs, February - May 2003.
Leeds, Harewood House, The Modern Show: British Art from Private Collections 1908-1958, 2006, 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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