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GILBERT WILLIAM BAYES (1872-1953)
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signed and dated 'GILBERT BAY S- 1913', on an ebonised pedestal
bronze, dark brown patina
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high, the bronze
16 ¾ in. (42.5 cm.) high, overall
Conceived circa 1913.
Agriculture
signed and dated 'GILBERT BAY S- 1913', on an ebonised pedestal
bronze, dark brown patina
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high, the bronze
16 ¾ in. (42.5 cm.) high, overall
Conceived circa 1913.
Provenance
Peter Rose recorded the provenance for this lot as: Used as a newel-post finial in [F.W.] Pomeroy's sister Louise's house in the 1920's, photographed in Ideal Homes of the Period. Acquired in 1979.
Literature
L. Levine & P. Atterbury, Gilbert Bayes: Sculptor 1872- 1953, Shepton Beauchamp, 1998, p. 174.
M. Hamnett, ‘The Albert Dawson Collection: a Handley-Read Legacy’, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, 2016, vol. 40, p. 103, fig. 11.
M. Hamnett, ‘The Albert Dawson Collection: a Handley-Read Legacy’, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, 2016, vol. 40, p. 103, fig. 11.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1940, no. 1561 (the model).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Sale room notice
Peter Rose recorded the provenance for this lot as: Used as a newel-post finial in [F.W.] Pomeroy's sister Louise's house in the 1920's, photographed in Ideal Homes of the Period. Acquired in 1979.