Robert Bain Art for Sale at Auction

Artist, b. 1911 - d. 1973

Robert Bain (1911–1973) was a sculptor and professor of art in South Africa.

Bain was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he completed his formal education and his art studies. He married Mary Lochiel in 1932; they had one child, Robert (b. 1935),

In 1937, he and his family moved to South Africa, where he took up a post as senior lecturer at the Port Elizabeth School of Art, leaving to serve in the army in North Africa and Italy from 1939 to 1944.

In 1948, he went to Florence where he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, where he received the academy's Gold Medal for his sculpture of a modern David.