Lot no. 723
Ivor Roberts-Jones: "Sir Winston Churchill". Maquette for the monument in Parliament Square, London (1970-73). Unsigned. Numbered '141' (on the base).
Sir Winston Churchill. Maquette for the monument in Parliament Square, London (1970-73) or Solli Square, Oslo (1974-75). Unsigned. Numbered '141' (on the base). Patinated bronze. H. 52 cm. Presumably from the limited edition of 1.500.
Provenance: Private collection, Norway, until c. 1976-78. Provenance: Private collection, Denmark, from c. 1976-78. By descent from the above. "With his statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, unveiled in November 1973, Ivor Roberts-Jones created one of the grandest works of public sculpture in Britain" (The Times, London, December 1996, cited from: Jonathan Black & Sara Ayres: "Abstraction and Reality - The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones", London 2013, p. 63).
Estimates :
150000/200000 DKK
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Sculpture and bronzes
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