Gill, Eric

signed and numbered 7
polished brass
height (not including base): 16cm.; 6¼in.
Conceived between December 1912 and March 1913, the present work is number 7 from the edition of 9.

PROVENANCE

The Artist 
Fr. O'Connor, Bradford, from whom acquired by the previous owner's family
Their sale, Sotheby's London, 12th July 2013, lot 110, where acquired by Felix Dennis Esq.

EXHIBITED

London, Barbican Art Gallery, Eric Gill: Sculpture, 11th November 1992 - 7th February 1993, cat. no.14, illustrated (another cast).

LITERATURE

Albert Rutherston (ed.), Eric Gill, Ernest Benn Ltd., London, 1927, illustrated pl.11 (plasticine version);
Malcolm Yorke, Eric Gill, Man of Flesh and Spirit, Constable, London, 1981, p.194, illustrated (another cast);
Judith Collins, Eric Gill - The Sculpture, A Catalogue Raisonné , Herbert Press, London, 1998, cat. no.34.7, illustrated (another cast).