Kneeling Torso signed 'Dobson' and numbered '3/5' (on the base) bronze with a brown patina 46 cm. (18 in.) high Conceived in 1928
Sold for
£19,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
Provenance: with Wolseley Fine Arts, London, where purchased by the present owner
Exhibited: London, Leicester Galleries, May - June 1930, no.6 (another cast as Torso) Bristol, Art Gallery, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Frank Dobson, 28 March - 11 April 1940, no.4 (another cast) Arts Council of Great Britain, Frank Dobson: Memorial, 22 June - 23 July 1966, no.37 (another cast) Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, True and Pure Sculpture, 1981, no.47 (another cast)
Literature: Neville Jason and Lisa Thompson-Pharoah, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, The Henry Moore Foundation, 1994, cat.no.82, (another cast illustrated b&w p.136)