Lot 145
RICHARD LOUIS GARBE (1876-1957) §
AN ELEGY
Auction: 3 April 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
bronze, dark-brown patina, marked to base RICHARD GARBE 1906, on a grey-green marble plinth
Dimensions
Overall 66.5cm high; bronze 58.5cm high
Footnote
Provenance: With The Fine Art Society, London
Literature: Bowman, Robert, 'Sir Alfred Gilbert & The New Sculpture: British Sculpture 1850-1930', The Fine Arts Society, London, p. 31
Note: A prolific sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Richard Garbe initially learned his craft under the apprenticeship of his father, a carver of luxury ivory and tortoiseshell goods. Garbe's emotive and often dramatic compositions take inspiration from the New Sculpture movement which aimed to convey a renewed sense of dynamism and physical realism, somewhat removed from the more stylised representations of neo-classical sculpture. Recognised for his versatility in working with ivory, bronze, clay and plaster, Garbe gained much praise for his work and was elected into the Royal Academy in 1929 after several nominations from contemporaries such as Frampton, Thornycroft and John Goscombe.