Eric Henri Kennington RA
T.E. LAWRENCE
Painted plaster
Height: 42 cm (16½ in.)
Conceived in 1926-27 and cast in gilded brass in an edition of 2 or 3 and in bronze in an edition of 6. The present work is one of two plaster casts made circa 1926.
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Conceived in 1926-27 and cast in gilded brass in an edition of 2 or 3 and in bronze in an edition of 6. The present work is one of two plaster casts made circa 1926.
Conceived in 1926-27 and cast in gilded brass in an edition of 2 or 3 and in bronze in an edition of 6. The present work is one of two plaster casts made circa 1926.
Provenance
Catherine Kennington, the Artist's daughterChristie's, London, 26 November 2015, lot 128
Exhibitions
London, The Leicester Galleries, Paintings, pastels, drawings and woodcuts illustrating T.E. Lawrence's book 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', February 1927, cat. no.81 (gilded brass cast exhibited)London, Picture Hire Limited, Eric Kennington, April 1936, cat. no.15 (bronze cast exhibited); with tour to Rusholme, Manchester; Platt Hall, Manchester; and Oxford
London, National Portrait Gallery, T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, December 1988 - March 1989, cat. no.275, illustrated p.199 (bronze cast exhibited)
Literature
T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, London, 1935, illustrated frontispiece (another cast)Charles Grosvenor, An Iconography: The Portraits of T.E. Lawrence, Pasadena, 1988, illustrated pp.73-75 (bronze cast)
Jonathan Black, The Sculpture of Eric Kennington, Much Hadham, 2002, cat. no.21, pp.38-40, 89, illustrated fig.22 (bronze cast)
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