Live Auction 16219An Adventurous Spirit: An Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation
CLAIRE WINSTON (BRITISH, 1882-1944)
Lot 36

CLAIRE WINSTON (BRITISH, 1882-1944)

Bust of George Bernard Shaw

Closed13 December 2018

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GBP 1,750

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CLAIRE WINSTON (BRITISH, 1882-1944)
Bust of George Bernard Shaw
Signed and indistinctly dated 'Winston 19..' (on the back)
bronze, mid-brown patina
16 ¾ in. (42.5 cm.) high; 15 ½ in. (39.5 cm.) wide; 9 ½ in. (24 cm.) deep

Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 May 2003, lot 70, where probably acquired.

Specialist note

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1959) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Writing over sixty plays, he became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.