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The Nest
Item Code: FD-nest-es
Bronze
Edition Size
12
Signed
Estate stamp
Height (cm)
34
Width (cm)
32.5
Date of Work
2020
We are delighted to present the first casting of this piece believed to have been modelled sometime in the 1920's.
Bronze, edition of 12 with estate and foundry stamps.
Cast with the permission of the Dobson Estate.
Provenance: Derby Museum held the plaster for this until recently and there is a study drawing held in the V&A collection.
Bronze, edition of 12 with estate and foundry stamps.
Cast with the permission of the Dobson Estate.
Provenance: Derby Museum held the plaster for this until recently and there is a study drawing held in the V&A collection.
Frank Dobson was born in London on 18 November, 1886. The son of a commercial artist, he showed early promise and won an art scholarship aged eleven. On leaving school at the age of fourteen he became a studio assistant to the sculptor William Reynolds Stevens. He then studied at Hospitalfield Art School in Scotland. His work was influenced by his exposure to the modernist art shown in Roger Fry’s landmark exhibition of 1910-11. After spending World War 1 in the Artists Rifles, he showed his first sculptures in Wyndham Lewis’s 1920 Group X exhibition.Over the years he moved from his early Cubist-inspired sculpture to a more lyrical style based on the female nude form. He also produced a series of notable portrait busts. His work was praised by Roger Fry as ‘true and pure sculpture’ and the critic Clive Bell described his Cornucopia as ‘the finest piece of sculpture which has been produced by an Englishman’
After World War II he was appointed professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art and awarded the CBE.
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Sunday: 11.00am - 4.00pm
The gallery is now open to visitors by appointment only. We are making regular weekly broadcasts on goldmark.tv where you can catch up on the latest news from the gallery. You can buy from us online or contact us by email or telephone. We look forward to hearing from you soon.