Standing Nude

Details

John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961)
Standing Nude
numbered '5/9' (at the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
9 ½ in. (24 cm.) high, excluding slate base
Conceived circa 1914-19 and cast in an edition of 9 plus one artist's cast.

Exhibited

Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, The Scottish Colourist J.D. Fergusson, July - October 2014, another cast exhibited.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Standing Nude conveys female fertility and sexuality with the figure’s pointed breasts and exaggerated buttocks, but these elements of organicism are tightly controlled within a rigid overall schema of contours and planes. The work bears relation to pre-war Cubist sculpture such as Archipenko’s Women Combing Her Hair, 1915, and Gaudier-Brzeska’s Torpedo Fish and Brass Toy, both of 1914.

A plaster cast of Standing Nude appears in Déesse et Fruits, an oil by Fergusson sold in these Rooms, 25 November 2015, lot 21, for £158,500.

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