Live Auction 20038An Aesthetic Odyssey: The Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan Collection
GILBERT WILLIAM BAYES (1872-1953)
Lot 79

GILBERT WILLIAM BAYES (1872-1953)

The Underworld

Closed30 September 2021

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GBP 9,375

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GILBERT WILLIAM BAYES (1872-1953)
The Underworld
signed and dated 'GILBERT BAYES 1913', on an ebonised pedestal
bronze, gilt and dark brown patina
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high, the bronze
17 in. (43 cm.) high, overall
Conceived circa 1913.
Remnants of paper label to underside

Acquired from Alan Boyle (antique dealer), Brighton, 1970.

Specialist note


Peter Rose's records show that the label to the underside formerly read: 'The Underworld, Bronze Statuette by G.B. suggested by Kipling's last Rymme(sic) of True Thomas, 1893: My lance is tippled o' the hammered flame/My Shield is beat o' the moonlight old/And I won my spurs in the Middle World/A thousand fathoms beneath the world'. See also lots 169-171.