Lot 65: Franta Belsky (1921-2000) - Lesson

Franta Belsky (1921-2000)
Lesson
bronze
signed 'F Belsky' 71cm high

Exhibited:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Summer Exhibition, 1959 (1413), bronze;
Franta Belsky, University of Birmingham '56 Society, 1959 (4), bronze;
Czech and Slovak Sculptors in Great Britain, Embassy of the Czechslovak Republic, London, 1992 (10), bronze;
Loaned to Czech Embassy until 2009.

Illustrated:
Franta Belsky Sculpture, Richter, Prague and A. Zwemmer Ltd., London, 1992, for a full scale example of this sculpture, one of which was made for the L.C.C. Avebury Housing Estate, Bethnal Green, London and the other for Abingdon, Oxfordshire.