Hubert Dalwood (British 1924-1976) §
Bonzai Garden II, 1975
£1,890
Auction: 28 April 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
1/6, opus 143, bronze
Dimensions
59.5cm wide, 53.5cm deep (23 1/2in wide, 21in deep)
Provenance
Provenance
Gimpel Fils, London.
Footnote
Exhibited
Gimpel Fils, London, Hubert Dalwood (1924-1976) Sculpture, 12 September – 6 October 1990, cat. no. 23;
Tate Britain, London, Art of the Garden, 3 June – 30 August 2004, no. 54, p. 124 illustrated in catalogue;
New Art Centre, Roche Court, 12 September – 8 November 2009;
Gimpel Fils, London, Modern British Sculpture, 20 January – 5 March 2011;
Gimpel Fils, London, Collector’s Choice, 26 January – 4 March 2017.
Literature
Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, Hubert Dalwood Sculptures and Reliefs, exhibition catalogue, 1979, p. 87, cat. no. 89 (terrosa ferrata example);
Stephens, Chris, The Sculpture of Hubert Dalwood, London: The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries Publishers, 1999, p. 137, no. 253 (p. 90 illustrated 'in situ' at Hayward Gallery).
‘His visit to Japan in 1973 greatly enriched his experience of gardening and of architecture…The Japanese garden seemed to him the apex of man’s achievement in this strange business of adjusting nature for the sake of delight. “Man’s intervention in the landscape” was his phrase for the activity and in it he included the broadest possible range of examples from megalithic sites to modern ‘earthwork’ sculptures. His studio sculptures during the Seventies reflected this increasing attachment…he now made table-sized sculptures that not merely looked like but actually were miniature gardens.’ (Norbert Lynton, 1979)
[Norbert Lynton, ‘Introduction’ in Hubert Dalwood: Sculptures and Reliefs, Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1979, p. 31]