Lot 162: JOSEPH CRIBB (1892-1967) - Pietà

JOSEPH CRIBB (1892-1967)
Pietà
carved limestone relief with gold paint, unique
20 in. (51 cm.) high
Carved circa 1950.


PROVENANCE:
Kenneth Eager.
with Gillian Jason Gallery, London, 2001.
Purchased by the present owner at the 2012 exhibition.
EXHIBITED:
London, Gillian Jason Gallery, The Lost Idyll: Sculpture and Carving by Members
of the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic at Ditchling, Sussex, 1913-1924:
Eric Gill, David Jones, Desmond Chute, Joseph Cribb, Philip Hagreen, George
Maxwell, Hilary Pepler, Dunstan Pruden, September - October 1989, no. 18, as
'Deposition'.
London, Fine Art Society, Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now, November 2012
- January 2013, no. 36.
LITERATURE:
Exhibition catalogue, Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now, London, Fine Art
Society, 2012, p. 50, no. 36, illustrated.