Jerwood Monumental Sculpture Collection to be Sold at Sotheby's London

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For Immediate ReleasePress Release London

London | +44 (0)20 7293 6000 | Matthew Weigman | [email protected]

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SOTHEBYS LONDON TO SELL 18 MONUMENTAL

WORKS FROM THE

JERWOOD SCULPTURE COLLECTION

--- Forthcoming Modern and Post-War British Art Sales

To Feature Works by Antony Gormley, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Peter

Randall-Page and Three Winners of the Jerwood Sculpture Prize ---

SOTHEBYS LONDON will offer 18 monumental works from the Jerwood

Sculpture Collection in its Modern and Post-War British Art Evening and Day Sales

on 10th

and 11th

May 2012. Highlights from the Collection, which has been exhibited

in the grounds of Ragley Hall in Warwickshire since 2005, include important works

by Antony Gormley, Dame Elisabeth Frink and Peter Randall-Page, as well as three

winners of the Jerwood Sculpture Prize - Judith Dean, Benedict Carpenter and Gereon

Krebber. The collection comes to the market with a combined estimate of 650,000 -

1,000,000.

Antony Gormley,Insider VIII/Weeds 1,

iron, 1998, est. 150,000-250,000 Peter Randall-Page, Green Fuse, granite,2008, est. 60,000-80,000 Dame Elisabeth Frink, Walking Man,bronze, 1986, est. 150,000-250,000


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Alan Grieve, Chairman of the Jerwood Foundation commented: We assembled

the Jerwood Sculpture Collection over the last 12 years with the intention of offering

an insight into the development of the medium in Britain. The sculptures offered for

sale will include some important works from the generation who came to prominence

in the 1950s, as well as a dynamic group of young sculptors working today. The

works are being sold on behalf of the Jerwood Foundation to further its dedicated

support of the visual and performing arts.

Sothebys Frances Christie, Director, Head of Department, Modern British Art

added: Sothebys is honoured to present works from such a prestigious and

imaginatively curated Collection of outdoor sculpture. Collectors will have the unique

opportunity to view these stunning monumental works in context, before the sale,

while they are on display in the grounds of Ragley Hall.

Dame Elisabeth Frinks Walking Man (illustrated on page one) was the first

sculpture to enter the Jerwood Collection in 1999. It belongs to a highly important

series of male nudes conceived in the mid-1980s, all of which were originally

purchased by WH Smith Plc. for its headquarters in Swindon. It also became the first

sculpture in a major new series of four figures known as the Riace warriors and this

work was later retitledRiace I. The sculpture is estimated at 150,000-250,000.

Antony GormleysInsider VIII/ Weeds 1 (illustrated on page one) is one of a series

of sculptures entitled Insiders, which occupied the artist from 1996-1999 and were

experiments in the reduction of form. The work, executed in iron, is a two-thirds

reduction of Gormleys own body. Conceived in 1998, the sculpture is unique and

estimated at 150,000-250,000.

Peter Randall-Pages monumental Cornish granite carving, Green Fuse (illustrated

page one), was commissioned by the Jerwood Foundation in 2007. Its title refers to

the 1934 poem by Dylan Thomas, The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the

Flower, and embodies one of the prime sources of inspiration in Randall-Pages

sculpture, the elemental power of nature. Created to sit in a formalised English

landscape, the work, which draws on Indian temple sculpture, gently subverts the

artifice of its setting and is estimated at 60,000-80,000.


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The sale also features the work of three winners of the Jerwood Sculpture Prize:

Benedict Carpenter won the first prize in 2001,

for his proposal for Universal Object (pictured

left). Estimated at 10,000-15,000, this work in

bronze is both strongly biomorphic and reflects

Carpenters interest in the Surrealist dolls of Hans

Bellmer.

Judith Deans

bronze Field

(winner 2005) is

cast from a section of ploughed earth and finished

with a rich earthy patination. The work, estimated at

8,000-12,000, was the artists response to the

combination of Capability Browns extraordinary

grounds at Ragley Hall and the simplicity of the

surrounding cultivated fields.

Gereon Krebbers Tin of 2003, estimated at

12,000-18,000, reflects the artists inspiration by

the everyday objects he encounters. In this work in

aluminium, he engages the viewer with a

monumental version of a tiny household object.

The auction will also include works by Kenneth

Armitage, Michael Ayrton, Fernando

Casasempere, Marzia Colonna, Julian Wild,

Michael Lyons, Sarah More, Ronald Rae, Sokari Douglas Camp and Peter Hayes.


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Notes to Editors

THE JERWOOD FOUNDATION AND JERWOOD SCULPTURE PARK

The Jerwood Sculpture Park was opened to the public at Witley Court, Worcestershire

(English Heritage), in 2000, to encourage greater understanding of monumental

sculpture and in 2001, the prestigious Jerwood Sculpture Prize was founded to

promote and reward emerging talent within the medium of outdoor sculpture. The

sculpture collection moved to the spectacular grounds of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire,

in 2005, providing an exceptional environment in which to experience and explore the

unique relationship between sculpture and landscape.

Harry Everington, The Crusader, 2000,bronze, 12,000-18,000

Fernando Casasempere, Under theForest, 2006, ceramic, 20,000-30,000

Kenneth Armitage, Standing Figure,

bronze, cast 1985, 60,000-80,000

Julian Wild, System No.24,2008, steel, est. 10,000-

15,000

Peter Hayes, Bench, 2003, bronze, est.

25,000-35,000

Marzia Colonna, Creation, bronze,

1997, est. 10,000-15,000


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*Estimates do not include buyers premium

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