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Frank Dobson, R.A. (British, 1888-1963) Figure Group (Les Deux Amies) unique (Conceived in 1938) image 1
Frank Dobson, R.A. (British, 1888-1963) Figure Group (Les Deux Amies) unique (Conceived in 1938) image 2
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Frank Dobson, R.A.
(British, 1888-1963)
Figure Group (Les Deux Amies) unique

13 June 2018, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £42,500 inc. premium

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Frank Dobson, R.A. (British, 1888-1963)

Figure Group (Les Deux Amies)
signed 'Dobson' (on the base)
terracotta
30.5 cm (12 in.) high
unique
Conceived in 1938

Footnotes

Provenance
With The Mayor Gallery, London, where acquired by
Christopher Marshall Esq.
Mr & Mrs Edward Ian Broof Jeffcott, by the 1940s
Thence by family descent
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Frank Dobson, 28 March-11 April 1940, cat.no.29 (as The Friends)
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Frank Dobson: Memorial Exhibition, 22 June-23 July 1966, cat.no.56, (as The Friends); this exhibition travelled to Bradford, Bradford City Art Gallery, 6-27 August, Coventry, Herbert Art Gallery, 3-24 September, Gateshead, Shipley Art Gallery, 5-22 October and Portsmouth, Cumberland House Museum, 29 Oct-19 November
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, True And Pure Sculpture, 4 July-9 August 1981, cat.no.70; this exhibition travelled with The Arts Council of Great Britain to Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, 5 September-3 October, Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, 10 October-8 November and Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, 21 November-3 January 1982

Literature
T.W. Earp, Britain Today, 'The Art of Frank Dobson', no.76, August 1942
Francis Waton, The Connoisseur, 'Frank Dobson: Four Drawings' January 1963, pl.23
Neville Jason & Lisa Thompson-Pharoah, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Much Hadham and London, 1994, p.147, cat.no.139 (ill.b&w)

Edward Ian Broof Jeffcott served as an officer in the Second World War and Pamala Jeffcott was an artist. Following 1945 Edward worked as an architect including as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951. For the Festival, Dobson sculpted a large seated female couple titled London Pride (Leisure), a bronze of which is still sited on the South Bank.

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