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Augustus John

Ivor Roberts-Jones (1913-1996)

Price
£4,500
Signed
Signed and numbered 3/20
Medium
Bronze
Illustrated
Royal Academy Illustrated, 1971, Page 58
Exhibited
Royal Academy Summer Show, 1971, No
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2011;
'The Spring Show', February - April 2012, No 414;
'Circles of Influence: British Art 1915-50 – a Diarist’s Perspective', Otter Gallery, University of Chichester, 6 February - 19 April 2016

On a travertine base
numbered three from an edition of twenty

Following the death of Augustus John on 31 October 1961, Ivor Roberts-Jones was commissioned to produce a memorial to be sited in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, the place in which the painter had lived and died. The organising committee had originally hoped that his partner and model, Dorelia, would be included in the composition, but funds did not allow. The resulting single figure – for which the present work was a study – was executed in the sculptor's London studio and completed in 1967. His first full-scale commission, this brought him public recognition, and led to his election as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1969.

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