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Lot 37*,AR

Ivor Roberts-Jones
(British, 1916-1996)
Sir Winston Churchill, maquette for the monument in Parliament Square 50.8 cm. (20 in.) high (excluding the base)

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

Sold for £112,500 inc. premium

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Ivor Roberts-Jones (British, 1916-1996)

Sir Winston Churchill, maquette for the monument in Parliament Square
numbered '115' (on the bronze base)
bronze with a brown patina on a stone base
50.8 cm. (20 in.) high (excluding the base)

Footnotes

Provenance
Private Collection, since circa 1977

The present work is a maquette for the large scale sculpture of Churchill by Roberts-Jones which stands in Parliament Square and was commissioned in 1971. The first important commission the artist had received came in 1961 from Lord Beaverbrook for a bust of Somerset Maugham. Following this, he was asked to sculpt the memorial statue for fellow artist Augustus John in Hampshire. This major work took three years to complete but was a great success and crucially led to his election as Associate of The Royal Academy. Further honours followed in 1975 when Ivor was awarded the C.B.E.

Another cast of the present work was sold in these rooms for £92,600, 13 June 2018.

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