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For Immediate ReleasePress Release London
London | +44 (0)20 7293 6000 | Matthew Weigman | Matthew.Weigman@sothebys.com
Leyla Daybelge | Leyla.Daybelge@sothebys.com | Mitzi Mina | Mitzi.Mina@Sothebys.com
New York Lauren Gioia | Lauren.Gioia@sothebys.com
SOTHEBYS LONDON TO SELL 18 MONUMENTAL
WORKS FROM THE
JERWOOD SCULPTURE COLLECTION
--- Forthcoming Modern and Post-War British Art Sales
To Feature Works by Antony Gormley, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Peter
Randall-Page and Three Winners of the Jerwood Sculpture Prize ---
SOTHEBYS LONDON will offer 18 monumental works from the Jerwood
Sculpture Collection in its Modern and Post-War British Art Evening and Day Sales
on 10th
and 11th
May 2012. Highlights from the Collection, which has been exhibited
in the grounds of Ragley Hall in Warwickshire since 2005, include important works
by Antony Gormley, Dame Elisabeth Frink and Peter Randall-Page, as well as three
winners of the Jerwood Sculpture Prize - Judith Dean, Benedict Carpenter and Gereon
Krebber. The collection comes to the market with a combined estimate of 650,000 -
1,000,000.
Antony Gormley,Insider VIII/Weeds 1,
iron, 1998, est. 150,000-250,000 Peter Randall-Page, Green Fuse, granite,2008, est. 60,000-80,000 Dame Elisabeth Frink, Walking Man,bronze, 1986, est. 150,000-250,000
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Alan Grieve, Chairman of the Jerwood Foundation commented: We assembled
the Jerwood Sculpture Collection over the last 12 years with the intention of offering
an insight into the development of the medium in Britain. The sculptures offered for
sale will include some important works from the generation who came to prominence
in the 1950s, as well as a dynamic group of young sculptors working today. The
works are being sold on behalf of the Jerwood Foundation to further its dedicated
support of the visual and performing arts.
Sothebys Frances Christie, Director, Head of Department, Modern British Art
added: Sothebys is honoured to present works from such a prestigious and
imaginatively curated Collection of outdoor sculpture. Collectors will have the unique
opportunity to view these stunning monumental works in context, before the sale,
while they are on display in the grounds of Ragley Hall.
Dame Elisabeth Frinks Walking Man (illustrated on page one) was the first
sculpture to enter the Jerwood Collection in 1999. It belongs to a highly important
series of male nudes conceived in the mid-1980s, all of which were originally
purchased by WH Smith Plc. for its headquarters in Swindon. It also became the first
sculpture in a major new series of four figures known as the Riace warriors and this
work was later retitledRiace I. The sculpture is estimated at 150,000-250,000.
Antony GormleysInsider VIII/ Weeds 1 (illustrated on page one) is one of a series
of sculptures entitled Insiders, which occupied the artist from 1996-1999 and were
experiments in the reduction of form. The work, executed in iron, is a two-thirds
reduction of Gormleys own body. Conceived in 1998, the sculpture is unique and
estimated at 150,000-250,000.
Peter Randall-Pages monumental Cornish granite carving, Green Fuse (illustrated
page one), was commissioned by the Jerwood Foundation in 2007. Its title refers to
the 1934 poem by Dylan Thomas, The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the
Flower, and embodies one of the prime sources of inspiration in Randall-Pages
sculpture, the elemental power of nature. Created to sit in a formalised English
landscape, the work, which draws on Indian temple sculpture, gently subverts the
artifice of its setting and is estimated at 60,000-80,000.
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The sale also features the work of three winners of the Jerwood Sculpture Prize:
Benedict Carpenter won the first prize in 2001,
for his proposal for Universal Object (pictured
left). Estimated at 10,000-15,000, this work in
bronze is both strongly biomorphic and reflects
Carpenters interest in the Surrealist dolls of Hans
Bellmer.
Judith Deans
bronze Field
(winner 2005) is
cast from a section of ploughed earth and finished
with a rich earthy patination. The work, estimated at
8,000-12,000, was the artists response to the
combination of Capability Browns extraordinary
grounds at Ragley Hall and the simplicity of the
surrounding cultivated fields.
Gereon Krebbers Tin of 2003, estimated at
12,000-18,000, reflects the artists inspiration by
the everyday objects he encounters. In this work in
aluminium, he engages the viewer with a
monumental version of a tiny household object.
The auction will also include works by Kenneth
Armitage, Michael Ayrton, Fernando
Casasempere, Marzia Colonna, Julian Wild,
Michael Lyons, Sarah More, Ronald Rae, Sokari Douglas Camp and Peter Hayes.
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Notes to Editors
THE JERWOOD FOUNDATION AND JERWOOD SCULPTURE PARK
The Jerwood Sculpture Park was opened to the public at Witley Court, Worcestershire
(English Heritage), in 2000, to encourage greater understanding of monumental
sculpture and in 2001, the prestigious Jerwood Sculpture Prize was founded to
promote and reward emerging talent within the medium of outdoor sculpture. The
sculpture collection moved to the spectacular grounds of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire,
in 2005, providing an exceptional environment in which to experience and explore the
unique relationship between sculpture and landscape.
Harry Everington, The Crusader, 2000,bronze, 12,000-18,000
Fernando Casasempere, Under theForest, 2006, ceramic, 20,000-30,000
Kenneth Armitage, Standing Figure,
bronze, cast 1985, 60,000-80,000
Julian Wild, System No.24,2008, steel, est. 10,000-
15,000
Peter Hayes, Bench, 2003, bronze, est.
25,000-35,000
Marzia Colonna, Creation, bronze,
1997, est. 10,000-15,000
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*Estimates do not include buyers premium