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Lot 12AR

Frederick Edward McWilliam
(British, 1909-1992)
Women of Belfast 3 (Women of Belfast I) 18 cm. (7 1/8 in.) long

14 November 2018, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £9,375 inc. premium

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Frederick Edward McWilliam (British, 1909-1992)

Women of Belfast 3 (Women of Belfast I)
signed with initials and numbered 'MCW 3/5' (underneath)
bronze with a brown patina
18 cm. (7 1/8 in.) long
Conceived in 1971

Footnotes

Provenance
Cyril and June Mardall

Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, Woman of Belfast: New Bronzes by F.E. McWilliam, October-November 1973 (another cast)
Belfast, McClelland Galleries International, Woman of Belfast: New Bronzes by F.E. McWilliam, 1972-73, November 1973, cat.no.3 (another cast)

Literature
Denise Ferran & Valerie Holman, The Sculpture of F.E. McWilliam, Lund Humphries in association with the Henry Moore Foundation, Farnham, 2012, p.155, cat.no.379

The Women of Belfast series show the artist responding to the violent
outbreak of the troubles in Northern Ireland. They are wrought in
jagged, roughly textured bronze and show women in dishevelment,
being flung from the force of bomb explosions. Many are shown
with flailing limbs or being thrown through the air but here the figure
is seated and still, braced with one arm steadying her and the other
raised to protect her face.

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