Bertram Mackennal
(1863 - 1931)
SALOMÉ, c.1895
bronze
28.5 cm height
signed at base: B. MACKENNAL
inscribed at base: LONDON / SALOME
stamped inside base with E. Gruet Jeune Paris foundry mark
Estimate:
$12,000 - $18,000
Sold:
$8,540 (inc. BP)
lot details
inscribed at base: LONDON / SALOME
stamped inside base with E. Gruet Jeune Paris foundry mark
Private collection, France
Thence by descent
Private collection, France
Exhibited
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, May 1897, cat. 2053 (another example)
Bertram Mackennal sculpture from the Stawell Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February 1901 (another example)
Bertram Mackennal Retrospective Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 August – 4 November 2007; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 November 2007 – 24 February 2008 (another example, lent by the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth)
Literature
Edwards, D., Bertram Mackennal: The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp. 5, 115 (illus., other examples)
Related Works
Other examples of this work are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth