Lot 150: FREDERICK EDWARD MCWILLIAM, R.A. (1909-1992) - Roman Matron

FREDERICK EDWARD MCWILLIAM, R.A. (1909-1992)
Roman Matron
signed with initials 'McW' (on the drapery behind the leg)
elmwood, unique
39 1/2 in. (100.3 cm.) high, excluding base
Carved in 1948.


PROVENANCE:
with Whitford and Hughes, London.
Purchased by the present owner at the 1994 exhibition.
EXHIBITED:
London, Hanover Gallery, F.E. McWilliam: Recent Sculpture, October -
November 1949, no. 9, as 'Reclining Woman'.
Bournemouth, Russell-Cotes Gallery, Contemporary Sculpture, 1952,
catalogue not traced.
London, Tate Gallery, F.E. McWilliam: Sculpture 1932-1989, May - July 1989,
no. 32.
London, Faggionato Fine Arts, Surrealist Sculptures, October - December
1994, exhibition not numbered.
LITERATURE:
Sphere, 5 November 1949, illustrated.
The Times, 18 October 1949, illustrated.
Architect, 21 October 1949.
Picture Post, 29 October 1949.
Daily Telegraph, 29 October 1949.
Illustrated London News, 3 December 1949, illustrated.
M. Gooding, exhibition catalogue, F.E. McWilliam: Sculpture 1932-1989,
London, Tate Gallery, 1989, pp. 27, 49, no. 32, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Surrealist Sculptures, London, Faggionato Fine Arts,
1994, n.p., exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
D. Ferran and V. Holman, The Sculpture of F.E. McWilliam, Farnham, 2012, p.
106, no. 58.