Bronze Tower

Details

John Milne (1931-1978)
Bronze Tower
signed with initials, dated and numbered 'JEM 2/6 /1971' (on the underside of the base)
polished bronze
11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high, excluding the base
Conceived in 1971 as an edition of 6.

Literature

P. Davies, The Sculpture of John Milne, London, 2000, p. 80, another cast illustrated.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

Milne was galvanized into productive overdrive as a result of his large Plymouth retrospective in 1971. The same year the Tate Gallery acquired its first Milne. He also reacted to the perceived isolation of St. Ives by travelling to the Mediterranean and Middle East, regions that inspired exotic or ancient architectural forms to inform his increasingly abstracted, even minimal sculpture. Like Persian Monolith, the vertical Bronze Tower is overtly architectural but without embellishment or detail. A central pierced interior is like a reversed, inscribed column contrasting with the flanking polished uprights on either side.
P.D.

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