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Madonna and Child

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Madonna and Child
Photography © Tate 2014.  For the supply of this image please contact Tate Images - <a href="ma…
Photography © Tate 2014. For the supply of this image please contact Tate Images - <a href="mailto:tate.images@tate.org.uk">tate.images@tate.org.uk</a>

Madonna and Child

Date1943
Artwork TypeSculpture Summary
Catalogue NumberLH 224
Dimensionsartwork (h x l x d): 15.5 × 8.4 × 6.6 cm
Ownershipedition summary - see individual casts for ownership
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Edition summary
Bronze edition of 7+[1], cast c.1945
Foundry: Art Bronze Foundry (Gaskin's)

Current or last known owner - click on the 'related' tab below to find out more about specific works
cast a: unknown
cast b: Northampton Central Museum and Art Gallery
cast c: Sotheby’s, London, 4 Feb 2016
cast d: Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, University of East Anglia, Norwich
cast e: Christie's, London, 23 Oct 1998
cast f: The Trustees of the Tate Gallery: purchased from the artist through the Berkeley Galleries (Knapping Fund) 1945
cast g: The British Council, purchased 1949
cast h: unknown
cast i: Yale Center for British Art: Paul Mellon Collection
cast j: unknown
cast k: Christie's, New York, 6 May 2009

terracotta, 1943: private collection

Remarks
Sketch-model for Madonna and Child 1943, Hornton stone (LH 226).

The known edition size for this work is 7, perhaps with an additional artist's copy. There is a larger number of casts listed here because, in some instances, it has not yet been possible to reconcile our records with the information supplied about the edition and specific casts.
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