Lot 130: BERNARD MEADOWS (1915-2005) - Large Seated Armed Figure

BERNARD MEADOWS (1915-2005)
Large Seated Armed Figure
bronze with a black patina
29 1/2 in. (75 cm.) high
Conceived in 1963.


PROVENANCE:
Wilfred Cass, from whom purchased by the present owner in 1989.
EXHIBITED:
Venice, British Pavilion, 'Roger Hilton, Gwyther Irwin, Joe Tilson, Bernard
Meadows’, Biennale XXXII, 1964, exhibition not numbered, another cast
exhibited, as ‘Seated Figure (Opus 75)’.
LITERATURE:
Exhibition catalogue, ‘Roger Hilton, Gwyther Irwin, Joe Tilson, Bernard
Meadows’, Biennale XXXII, Venice, British Pavilion, 1964, n.p., another cast
illustrated, as ‘Seated Figure (Opus 75)’.
A. Bowness, Bernard Meadows: Sculpture and Drawings, Much Hadham, 1995,
pp. 71, 142, no. BM95, pl. 52, plaster version illustrated.