Lot 134

A SCOTTISH BRONZE FIGURE BY ALEXANDER STODDART FRSE (SCOTTISH B.1959)
THE RHINE










Auction: Day 1: Wednesday 20 August - Lots 1 - 296
Description
dark brown/green patina, dated 2005, incised to the reverse 'The Rhein. Homage to A. von Hildebrand. A. STODDART sc. PAISLEY 2005', mounted on a stepped wooden plinth base
Dimensions
37cm wide, 32cm high 18.5cm deep [including base]
Footnote
In 2008 Alexander Stoddart was appointed the Sculptor in Ordinary to her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland, and currently holds the title of Sculptor in Ordinary to His Majesty The King in Scotland.
The present work is a homage to the centre figure of the Father Rhine Fountain (Vater-Rhein-Brunnen) which stood on the Kaiser Wilhelm Ring, Cologne, Germany. Adolf von Hildebrand (German 1847–1921) created the model at the end of his life circa 1920 and the fountain was completed posthumously in the early 1920s.









