Lot 34: Ivor Roberts-Jones, R.A. (1913-1996)

Clive Gardiner; portrait head
plaster
15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in 1953. The present work is an original unique studio plaster.

Ipswich, Wolsey Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, December 1999 - January 2000, no. B/H L8.

P. Cannon-Brookes, Ivor Roberts-Jones, London, 1983, p. 33.

As the Principal of Goldsmiths College, Clive Gardiner provided Roberts-Jones with the support of a part-time teaching post at the colleage in 1946, and by 1964 Roberts-Jones was Head of Sculpture until his retirement in 1978. Peter Cannon-Brookes remarks that "Ivor Roberts-Jones' first important head, exhibted at the time, was of Clive Gardiner" (Ivor Roberts-Jones, London, 1983, p. 33).
Bronze casts of this work are held in the Collections of the Arts Council of Great Britain, Beaverbrook Foundation, and University of London, Goldsmiths College.

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