Lot 421
STAN ‘WOODPECKER’ DODDS (1928-2012)
CARVED ELEPHANT FIGURE, CIRCA 1980
Auction: 19 April 2023 at 10:00 BST
£2,772
Description
oak, with carved woodpecker signature
Dimensions
16cm wide, 17cm high
Provenance
Provenance: From the estate of Stan Dodds
Footnote
Note: Stan Dodds was a talented designer-maker who trained in the Kilburn workshop of Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson from 1942 when he was 14. He continued to work at the workshops at Kilburn until his retirement in 1994, however, he also set up his own workshop at his home in Osgodby where he produced fine carvings under his signature, at first a rabbit, changing in the late 1960s to a woodpecker, as in the current example.