Lot 79: George Fullard , 1923 - 1973 the skipping girl, 1955 bronze with dark brown patina

bronze with dark brown patina

height (including base): 38cm.; 15in.; width: 23cm.; 9in.; breadth: 11.5cm.; 4¾in.

London, South London Art Gallery, Looking at People, April - May 1957, with tour to Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts;
London, Serpentine Gallery, George Fullard 1923 - 1973, July - August 1974, cat. no.3;
Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, George Fullard: A Fastidious Primitive, August - November 1997;
Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, George Fullard: Playing with Paradox, May - July 1998, illustrated in the catalogue p.17.

Gillian Whiteley, The Sculpture of George Fullard, Lund Humphries/HMF, London and Much Hadham, 1998, cat. no.15, pl.3.

Acquired from the artist by the present owner's father in the mid 1950s

Cast in an edition of three in 1955. The original maquette for this sculpture was taken to a foundry in Rome for casting by Fullard's photographer friend Frank Monaco, and it appears in a photograph of Fullard and Monaco at the sculptor's studio at Fawcett Yard, off Fulham Road, taken circa 1956 (reproduced in Gillian Whiteley, op.cit., pl.36). One of the three casts was purchased in 1956 for the collection of the National Gallery of South Australia.