Crouching Girl II

Details

Ralph Brown (b. 1928)
Crouching Girl II
signed with a monogram and numbered '1-10' (on the back of the head)
bronze with a brown patina
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high excluding the marble base
Conceived in 1979-1981.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1981, no. 45, where purchased by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

In 1973 Ralph Brown moved to the South of France where he laid aside all connections with art teaching, he was able to contemplate his work and subsequently made a total commitment to figurative bronze sculpture. Brown returned to England in 1976. Geoffrey Ireland comments that 'in his later sculptures, as in the Standing Girl, At the Margin, or in his Crouching Girl, we can see the development of a more restrained and refined sensuality, and of that static inner vitality we find in the best Egyptian and early Greek work' (Exhibition catalogue, Ralph Brown, Sculpture in Bronze, Bath, Beaux Arts, 1983, p. 1).

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