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Sculpture: S0018

Title

Sir John Gielgud

Technique

Bronze

Subject

Artist

Date

1962

Dimensions

Height: 30.5cm
Width: 22cm
Depth: 29.5cm

Other materials

Black marble base

Inscription/signature

“DAVID WYNNE / 3 ” (back of neck, left side); “SIR JOHN GIELGUD, C. H. / by DAVID WYNNE / PRESENTED BY THE HON. ALISTAIR McALPINE” (on gold painted wooden plaque on marble base)

Provenance

Presented by the Hon Alistair McAlpine, 1981

Other number

Gift 896

Exhibition history

1964 London, “Exhibition of New Sculpture by David Wynne”, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd (7) 1987-88 London Theatre Museum, "Sir John Gielgud"

Number 3 of an edition of 6. In the catalogue of the Tooth exhibition David Wynne commented: "The head of the great Shakespearean actor was conceived as a mask whereon moods and passions follow one another at will." The cast in the collection of the Royal Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was loaned to the David Wynne exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in 1972 (12).
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