The Underworld

Details

GILBERT WILLIAM BAYES (1872-1953)
The Underworld
signed and dated 'GILBERT BAYES 1913', on an ebonised pedestal
bronze, gilt and dark brown patina
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high, the bronze
17 in. (43 cm.) high, overall
Conceived circa 1913.
Remnants of paper label to underside

Provenance

Acquired from Alan Boyle (antique dealer), Brighton, 1970.

Literature

M. Hamnett, ‘The Albert Dawson Collection: a Handley-Read Legacy’, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, 2016, vol. 40, p. 103, fig. 12.

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.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Peter Rose's records show that the label to the underside formerly read: 'The Underworld, Bronze Statuette by G.B. suggested by Kipling's last Rymme(sic) of True Thomas, 1893: My lance is tippled o' the hammered flame/My Shield is beat o' the moonlight old/And I won my spurs in the Middle World/A thousand fathoms beneath the world'. See also lots 169-171.

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