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Preening Pintail
Details
Guy Taplin (b.1939)
Preening Pintail
signed and inscribed 'PINTAIL/GUY TAPLIN/WIVENHOE ESSEX' (on the underneath)
carved wood; unique
18 in. (45.8 cm.) long
Executed in 1985
Preening Pintail
signed and inscribed 'PINTAIL/GUY TAPLIN/WIVENHOE ESSEX' (on the underneath)
carved wood; unique
18 in. (45.8 cm.) long
Executed in 1985
Provenance
Portal Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Sale room notice
Lots 114 to 116 are from a series of carved models of birds which the artist later cast in bronze.
(see A. Csaky and I. Collins, Birds of Creation Guy Taplin, London, 1998.
(see A. Csaky and I. Collins, Birds of Creation Guy Taplin, London, 1998.