Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale

Frank Dobson, R.A.

Study for Siesta (Two Friends)

Artist's Resale Right

Lot Closed

June 30, 09:59 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Frank Dobson, R.A.

1888 - 1963

Study for Siesta (Two Friends)

terracotta

width: 22.5cm.; 8¾in.

height: 14.5cm.; 5¾in.

Executed in 1926-7, the present work is unique.

We are grateful to the Artist's Estate and Richard Cork for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

The Artist's Estate
Anne and John Garvey (daughter and son-in-law of Frank Dobson), from whom acquired by the family of the present owner, 8 February 2000

Neville Jason and Lisa Thompson-Pharoah, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, Lund Humphries, London, 1994, p. 133, illustrated no. 66

London, Leicester Galleries, Sculpture and Drawings by Frank Dobson, March - April 1927, no. 17
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Small Bronzes, Terracottas and Drawings by Frank Dobson, November - December 1931
London, Leicester Galleries, Sculpture and Drawing by Frank Dobson, April - May 1935, no. 13
Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Frank Dobson, 28 March - 11 April 1940, no. 31