Bernard Meadows (1915-2005)
Startled Bird
bronze with a grey green patina
23¾ in. (60 cm.) high
Conceived in 1955 and cast in an edition of 6 + 1.
Bernard Meadows (1915-2005)
Startled Bird
bronze with a grey green patina
23¾ in. (60 cm.) high
Conceived in 1955 and cast in an edition of 6 + 1.
with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the present owner's husband by April 1957.
A. Bowness, Bernard Meadows Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1995, pp. 41, 138, no. BM29, pl. 20, another cast illustrated.
London, Gimpel Fils, Bernard Meadows' Sculpture, April - May 1957. Bochum, Staedtische Kunstgalerie, Contemporary English Art, April - June 1964.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London Group 1914-64: Jubilee Exhibition, Fifty Years of British Art, July - August 1964, no. 128, as 'Frightened Bird (Water Bird)': this exhibition travelled to Cardiff, National Museum of Wales; Doncaster, New Museum and Art Gallery; and Southampton, Art Gallery.
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer 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.
.jpg?maxwidth=3840)