Live Auction 12309Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art, Maritime Art, Sporting & Wildlife Art
John Rattenbury Skeaping, R.A. (1901-1980)
Lot 325

John Rattenbury Skeaping, R.A. (1901-1980)

A group of five racehorses

Closed7 July 2016

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GBP 18,750

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John Rattenbury Skeaping, R.A. (1901-1980)
A group of five racehorses
signed, dated and numbered 'JOHN SKEAPING 77 4/7' with foundry stamp (on the base)
bronze
11 ½ x 36 x 14 in. (29.2 x 91.4 x 35.6 cm.)

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John Skeaping studied at Goldsmiths College and the Royal Academy. In the 1920s he travelled to Italy were he learned marble carving, and married Barbara Hepworth at the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. During World War II Skeaping served in the Intelligence Corps as an official war artist and spent a term with the newly founded SAS.