
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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Provenance
Private Collection, U.S.A.
Exhibited
Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Frank Dobson, 28 March-11 April 1940, cat.no.29 (the terracotta, as The Friends)
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Frank Dobson: Memorial Exhibition, 22 June-23 July 1966, cat.no.56, (the terracotta, 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 (the terracotta); 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 (the terracotta)
Francis Waton, The Connoisseur, 'Frank Dobson: Four Drawings' January 1963, pl.23 (the terracotta)
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 (the terracotta, ill.b&w)