Medusa

Details

BARBARA TRIBE (1913-2000)
Medusa
signed 'Barbara Tribe' and numbered '8⁄12'
bronze with dark brown patina
15 in. (38 cm.) high
Conceived in 1931 and executed in an edition of 12.

Provenance

Private Collection
Bay East Art, Sydney, 22 March 2009, lot 222 (illustrated).
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above.
Anonymous sale; Smith and Singer, Melbourne, 24 October 2018, lot 68, where acquired by the late Barry Humphries.

Literature

P.R. McDonald, Barbara Tribe, Sculptor, Sydney, 2000, pp.15, 67-8, 156, another cast illustrated on the cover and pl. 1, p. 76.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

In the early 1930s, Tribe created a number of classically and mythologically themed works - including “Fountain of Life”, 1932, “The Spirit of the Sea”, 1933 and “Bacchanalia”, 1934 and the present lot “Medusa” in 1931. The present lot was cast in an edition of twelve by the founder Alan Crawford, Sydney. In 1995 on a visit to Sydney, Tribe presented a cast to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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