Lot 258
Tomlin (Stephen) Lytton Strachey, bronze bust, 1973.
Hammer Price: £1,700
Description
Tomlin (Stephen) Portrait of Lytton Strachey, bronze bust, stamped 8/8 at foot, 460mm. high excluding wooden base, conceived c.1929-30 and cast in 1973 from the original plaster by the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
⁂ Strachey commissioned the portrait in 1928 and wrote of the process: "I sit all day to Tommy, who is creating what appears to me a highly impressive, repulsive, and sinister object.... Perhaps it is the pure truth."
Description
Tomlin (Stephen) Portrait of Lytton Strachey, bronze bust, stamped 8/8 at foot, 460mm. high excluding wooden base, conceived c.1929-30 and cast in 1973 from the original plaster by the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
⁂ Strachey commissioned the portrait in 1928 and wrote of the process: "I sit all day to Tommy, who is creating what appears to me a highly impressive, repulsive, and sinister object.... Perhaps it is the pure truth."
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