Crouching Girl

Details

Ralph Brown, R.A. (b. 1928)
Crouching Girl
signed with a monogram and numbered '7/9' (on the back of the head)
bronze with a brown patina
24 in. (61 cm.) long
Conceived in 1981.

Provenance

Purchased by the present owner direct from the artist, circa 1978.

Literature

G. Ireland, Ralph Brown, London, 1983, illustrated.

Special notice

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Sale room notice

Please note that the present lot was purchased by the present owner direct from the artist circa 1981, and not as indicated in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Geoffrey Ireland comments on the development of the Jeune Fille Assise which took shape when the artist moved to an isolated farmhouse in the mountains of the South of France in the mid 1970s. Here he found the freedom to express his uninhibited pleasure in the human body and was able to capture the essence of a gesture. 'In his later sculptures, as in Standing Girl, At the Margin, or in his Crouching Girl, we can see the development of a more restrained and refined sensuality, and of that static inner vitality we find in the best Egyptian and Early Greek work' (loc. cit).

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