Salome c1895

Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931)

Salome c1895

bronze
29.0 x 14.0 x 8.0 cm
signed and inscribed to base: B. MACKENNAL/ LONDON/ SALOME

Provenance:
Private collection, United Kingdom

Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers, United Kingdom, 10 March 2020, lot 33

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, May 1897, cat.2053 (another example)

Bertram Mackennal, Sculpture from the Stawell Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February 1901 (another example)

First Exhibition of Statuettes by the Sculptors of To-day, British and French, Fine Art Society, London, 1902, cat.37 (another example)

Exhibition of Bronzes by Sir Bertram Mackennal K.C.V.O, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 7 - 20 October 1926, cat.18 (another example)

Memorial Exhibition of Statuettes by the Late Sir Bertram Mackennal, K.C.V.O, The Fine Art Society's Gallery, Melbourne, May 1932 (another example)

Commemorative Exhibition of Works by Late Members, Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 7 January - 11 March 1933 (another example)

British Sculpture 1850-1914: A Loan Exhibition of Sculpture and Medals Sponsored by the Victorian Society, Fine Art Society PLC, London, 30 September - 30 October 1968 (another example)

S.H. Ervin Memorial Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 18 May - 17 December 1979 (another example)

Renaissance References in Australian Art, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 13 August - 20 September 1985 (another example)

Bertram Mackennal, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 August - 4 November 2007; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 November 2007 - 24 February 2008 (another example)

Reference:
McCulloch, A., Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson, Melbourne, 1968, p.455 (illus., another example)

Edwards, D., Australian Sculpture 1890-1919, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1987

Edwards, D., Bertram Mackennal: The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp.5, 47, 114, 115, 148, 172 (illus. pp.5, 115, other examples)

Edwards, D. & Mimmocchi, D., Bertram Mackennal: Catalogue Raisonné, CD-ROM, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007 (illus., other examples)

Related Works:
Other examples of this work are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne

Estimate: $18000 - 26000

Result Hammer: $14500