Lot 94
Grizel Niven (British 1906-2007) §
Two Seated Figures
Auction: 29 October 2021 from 11:00 BST
£3,000
Description
each signed, patinated bronze
Dimensions
25cm high, 20.5cm wide (9.9in, 8in wide) and 25cm high, 14cm wide (9.9in high, 5.5in wide)
Footnote
Grizel Niven was a pupil of Henry Moore in the 1930s and began direct carving under his influence. Later in her career she won acclaim for her sculpture for the Dachau Concentration Camp memorial. After hearing Kate Mosse talking on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour about setting up a Women’s Prize for Fiction, Niven offered a cast of a sculpture of Mosse as a prize. Her younger brother was the actor David Niven.