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).