Modern & Post-War British Art Day Sale
Modern & Post-War British Art Day Sale
Lot Closed
July 30, 12:09 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
FREDERICK EDWARD MCWILLIAM, R.A.
1909-1992
THE WEDGE
signed
elm, cherry and mahogany
height (including base): 84cm.; 33in.; height (excluding base): 77cm.; 30¼in.
width: 35.5cm.; 14in.
Carved in 1983, the present work is unique.
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Waddington Galleries, London
The Mayor Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, circa the 1990s
Denise Ferran and Valerie Holman, The Sculpture of F. E. McWilliam, Lund Humphries, Farnham, in association with the Henry Moore Foundation, 2012, cat. no.478, p.170.
London, Waddington Galleries, F.E. McWilliam, 31st May - 23rd June 1984;
London, New Art Centre, 1984 (details untraced);
London, Tate, F.E. McWilliam sculpture 1932 - 1989, 10th May - 9th July 1989, cat. no.76, illustrated p.69;
Dublin, Solomon Gallery, F.E. McWilliam, Retrospective, 8th - 23rd August 1995;
London, The Mayor Gallery, F.E. McWilliam, 3rd May - 3rd June 2006.
We are grateful to Dr Denise Ferran for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
