Lot 125: Irena Sedlecka (b.1928) - Paul Scofield as Salieri, 1992, for The Great Actors and Singers Series

Irena Sedlecka (b.1928)
Paul Scofield as Salieri, 1992, for The Great Actors and Singers Series
bronze
signed 'SEDLECKA / 92' and numbered '1/3'
with Pangolin Editions foundry mark 43cm high

Exhibited:
Society of Portrait Sculptors, London, FACE 2011 (50) as Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Schaffer's Amadeus, illustrated, p.62, bronze.

This was part of a series of figures by Sedlecká Great Actors and Singers, launched by Richard Bebb in 1994, cast in resin bronze, editions limited to 250, each figure individually numbered. However, work began on the first of the series in October 1992.