Frank Dobson, R.A. (British, 1888-1963)


Figure Group (Les Deux Amies) signed 'Dobson' (on the base)terracotta30.5 cm (12 in.) highuniqueConceived in 1938
|ProvenanceWith The Mayor Gallery, London, where acquired byChristopher Marshall Esq.Mr & Mrs Edward Ian Broof Jeffcott, by the 1940sThence by family descentPrivate Collection, U.K.ExhibitedBristol, Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Frank Dobson, 28 March-11 April 1940, cat.no.29 (as The Friends)London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Frank Dobson: Memorial Exhibition, 22 June-23 July 1966, cat.no.56, (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 NovemberCambridge, Kettle's Yard, True And Pure Sculpture, 4 July-9 August 1981, cat.no.70; 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 1982LiteratureT.W. Earp, Britain Today, 'The Art of Frank Dobson', no.76, August 1942Francis Waton, The Connoisseur, 'Frank Dobson: Four Drawings' January 1963, pl.23Neville 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 (ill.b&w)