Lot 519: Garden Sculpture: Christine Fox (1944-2012)

Garden Sculpture: Christine Fox (1944-2012)
Spiralling henges
Welsh slate with iron fixtures
the tallest 162cm.; 64ins high, the shortest 80cm.; 31½ins high
Christine Fox 1922-2012 trained at Winchester School of Art and got her first commission when she was in the first year of the degree course there. Her many sculptures bought for public places include Axe Carrier, Clare Hall Garden Court, Cambridge University, 1975; Batrachian Cascade, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, 1981; and Gathering of Owls, Darwin's Aviary, New Hall, Cambridge University, 1992.

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