Lot 305
STEPHEN M. WIENS (BRITISH 1871-1956)
DAPHNE, 1919
Auction: 24 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
£12,500
Description
alabaster herm, naturalistically carved with her soulful face looking down at the berried laurel tendrils enveloping the flared square stem, on a moulded square plinth base, signed lower right side S. Wiens/Sculpst /1919
Dimensions
178cm high, 35cm deep
Footnote
Notes:
Stephen Wiens is recorded by the Tate Gallery as a portrait painter and sculptor, a grandson of the German poet Ferdinand Freiligrath. He was born in London, but educated partly in Germany. Having studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1890, he exhibited at the R.A. from 1893. Although the Tate holds a small bronze of his of 1906, his works appear to come on the market only rarely.