Live Auction 258820th Century British Art
Rowan Gillespie (b. 1953)
Lot 141

Rowan Gillespie (b. 1953)

The Kiss

Closed12 October 2011

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GBP 16,250

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Rowan Gillespie (b. 1953)
The Kiss
signed, dated and numbered '5/9 Rowan '85' (on the base of the shorter figure)
bronze with a dark brown patina
17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high, excluding the slate base

Purchased at the 1985 exhibition by Palley Fine Art, Atlantic City.

Specialist note

The present work re-emerged in 1990 as the focal point for Gillespie's large public sculpture The Kiss on Earlsfort Terrace, opposite the Concert Hall in Dublin.

The artist comments that it depicts 'that tingly tentative moment just before lips touch for the first time' (private correspondence 26 August 2011).