Lot 196
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AN ENGLISH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'CALL OF THE SEA', cast from a model by Charles Leonard Hartwell, the woman wearing a cap, with her right hand to her cheek, her drapery falling from her shoulders and held to her chest by her other hand, with her bare feet on a square-shaped naturalistic base, signed to the reverse C.L. HARTWELL, on a square-stepped ebonised plinth, early 20th Century

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AN ENGLISH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'CALL OF THE SEA', cast from a model by Charles Leonard Hartwell, the woman wearing a cap, with her right hand to her cheek, her drapery falling from her shoulders and held to her chest by her other hand, with her bare feet on a square-shaped naturalistic base, signed to the reverse C.L. HARTWELL, on a square-stepped ebonised plinth, early 20th Century
the bronze: 15in. (38cm.) high
the plinth: 4½in. (11.5cm.) high; 4½in. (11.5cm.) square
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
H.Berman, Bronze Sculptors and Founders 1800-1930, Chicago, 1980, vol.IV, no.4572.

Lot Essay

The present figure, inspired by Charles Kongeley's poem entitled Call of the Sea, typifies Hartwell's fluid style. Other examples of the piece have a bronze plinth with the inscription from the poem The rolling mist came down and hid the land and never home came she. The Western Wind was wild with foam and all alone went she.

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