Bertram Mackennal
(1863 - 1931)
VESTA, c.1900
bronze
25.5 cm height
signed at base: MACKENNAL
Estimate:
$12,000 - $18,000
Sold:
$26,840 (inc. BP)
lot details
The Viscount Norwich and Lady Diana Cooper, United Kingdom
Dreweatts and Bloomsbury, Newbury, United Kingdom, 16 November 2016, lot 127
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Bertram Mackennal: The Fifth Balnaves Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 August – 4 November 2007 (another example)
Literature
Edwards, D., Bertram Mackennal: The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, (illus., another example), and catalogue raisonné in accompanying CD-ROM
Related Works
Centrepiece for dining table ‘Vesta’, late 1980s – early 1900s, gilt bronze and alabaster, 65.0 cm height, private collection, in Edwards, D., Bertram Mackennal: The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp. 34 – 35