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Lot 6AR
Ivor Roberts-Jones(British, 1916-1996)Sir Winston Churchill, maquette for the monument in Parliament Square 51.4 cm. (20 1/4 in.) high
19 November 2025, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£30,000 - £50,000
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Ivor Roberts-Jones (British, 1916-1996)
Sir Winston Churchill, maquette for the monument in Parliament Square
numbered '79' (on the base)
bronze with a brown patina
51.4 cm. (20 1/4 in.) high
Conceived circa 1970
numbered '79' (on the base)
bronze with a brown patina
51.4 cm. (20 1/4 in.) high
Conceived circa 1970
Footnotes
Provenance
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
Ipswich, Wolsey Gallery, An Exhibition of Photographs and Maquettes for Commissioned Works, Portrait Heads and Drawings from the Suffolk Studio of Ivor Roberts-Jones, 4 December 1999-23 January 2000, cat.no.B/HL17A (another plaster cast)
Essex, Chappel Galleries, Ivor Roberts-Jones: Sculpture and Drawings, 22 July-12 August 2000, cat.no.8 (another plaster cast)
Literature
Peter Cannon-Brookes, Ivor Roberts-Jones, Trefoli Books, London, 1983, pp.51-59
The present work is a maquette for the large scale sculpture of Churchill by Roberts-Jones which stands in Parliament Square and was commissioned in 1971. The first important commission the artist had received came in 1961 from Lord Beaverbrook for a bust of Somerset Maugham. Following this, he was asked to sculpt the memorial statue for fellow artist Augustus John in Hampshire. This major work took three years to complete but was a great success and crucially led to his election as Associate of The Royal Academy. Further honours followed in 1975 when Ivor was awarded the C.B.E.
Another cast of the present work was sold in these rooms for £118,800, 1 July 2020.