Lot 247
  • 247

Hubert Dalwood, 1924-1976

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hubert Dalwood
  • double cubes figures - square figure
  • bronze with a dark green-brown patina on a wooden base
  • Height (including base): 60cm.; 23½in.

Provenance

Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford, whence purchased by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Strauss, May 1962
His Sale, Sotheby's, London, 2nd March 1988, lot 335 (as 'Square Figure'), whence purchased by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Gimpel Fils, Recent Sculpture by Hubert Dalwood, January 1960, no.3 (another cast).

Literature

Chis Stephens, The Sculpture of Hubert Dalwood, Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, 1999, no.86, p.117.

Condition

The structure of the sculpture is sound. There is some surface dirt to the indentations in the bronze. Otherwise the work is in good overall condition.
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Catalogue Note

Conceived in an edition of 6, this work is listed as Op.25 in the artist's workbook.