Two drawings for 'Head and shoulders of Augustus', framed together

Details

Bernard Meadows (1915-2005)
Two drawings for 'Head and shoulders of Augustus', framed together
each signed with monogram and dated '62 (lower right)
pencil and wash
each 7½ x 10¼ in. (19 x 26 cm.)

Provenance

with Gimpel Fils, London by January 1965.
Lady Darwin.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

My drawings are in no way drawings of sculpture, but drawings for sculpture. They are often intentionally ambiguous and often unsculptural; in this way I am freer to interpret them in one way or another. It is the idea that is important to me, not the form. They are often mounted two or more in a frame, and usually when so mounted depend on each other - as foil or as reinforcement of the idea.
(Exhibition catalogue, Bernard Meadows, Exhibition of drawings for sculpture, London, Gimpel Fils, 1965, unpaginated)

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