Woman Waking

Details

FRANK DOBSON, R.A. (1886-1963)
Dobson, F.
Woman Waking
bronze with a dark brown patina
13 ¼ in. (33.7 cm.) long
Conceived circa 1925.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 May 1965, lot 186, as 'Study of a Kneeling Woman'.
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, where purchased by the present owners in May 1965.

Literature

Vogue, June 1926.
N. Jason and L. Thompson-Pharoah, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, Much Hadham, 1994, p. 129, no. 44, version without base illustrated.

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Lot Essay

There are two known versions of this work, one (illustrated in Jason and Thompson-Pharoah's 1994 publication, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson) which is without the integral bronze base, and one (the present work) which is with the base. There are known to be at least three casts of the version with a base.

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