JOHN DUNCAN FERGUSSON R.B.A. (SCOTTISH 1874-1961) §
TORSE DE FEMME (TORSO OF A WOMAN) 1918 (CAST 1991)
£8,820
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Evening Sale: Lots 100 to 191 | 06 June 2024 at 6pm
Description
Numbered 10/10, bronze with green patina
Dimensions
14cm x 7cm x 5cm excluding base (32.5cm x 15cm x 15cm including base)
Provenance
Acquired in 1991 by the father of the present owner
Footnote
Torse de Femme embodies key themes in Fergusson’s sculptural practice, namely the appreciation of an idealised, cropped female form and a sleek modernism, based on curves and planes, with particular attention paid to the breasts, bottom and the base of the spine. It pays testament to the sculptors with whose work he would have been familiar in pre-war Paris, such as Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Archipenko and Jacob Epstein. Its angularity also speaks to Vorticism, whose members Wyndham Lewis, Christopher Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth Fergusson knew through the Margaret Morris Club that Morris ran alongside her dance school and theatre in London.