Lot 557: John Milne (1931-1978)

John Milne (1931-1978)
Sentinel
signed with initials, dated and numbered '1976/J.E.M. 2/6' (on the underside of the base)
bronze with a green patina
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high, excluding the base
Conceived in 1976 as an edition of 6.

P. Davies, The Sculpture of John Milne, London, 2000, p. 90, another cast illustrated.

JOHN MILNE (1931-1978)

Milne's elegantly sculptural vision of flowing, harmonious surfaces often captured broad landscape topographies and pagan or sacred architectural features in Cornwall, Greece, Morocco and the Middle East. His sculptures were deft exercises in shifting surfaces and planar lyricism while maintaining the solidity, bulk and inert presence of an originating formal idea. The extent to which this idea was naturalistic or abstract in orientation was a moot point as the one time Barbara Hepworth studio assistant and later St Ives neighbour shuffled between the two. This resulted in a counterpoint between conceptual plan and sensual process.
We are very grateful to Peter Davies for his assistance cataloguing the present lot and lots 558-562 and 571-573.
Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
John Milne (1931-1978)
Sentinel
signed with initials, dated and numbered '1976/J.E.M. 2/6' (on the underside of the base)
bronze with a green patina
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high, excluding the base
Conceived in 1976 as an edition of 6.