SALOMÉ, c.1895

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
10 April 2019
65

BERTRAM MACKENNAL

(1863 – 1931)
SALOMÉ, c.1895

bronze

28.5 cm height

signed at base: B. MACKENNAL
inscribed at base: LONDON / SALOME

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $28,060 (inc. BP) in Auction 57 - 10 April 2019, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection, France

Exhibited

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, May 1897, cat. 2053 (another example)
Bertram Mackennal sculpture from the Stawell Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February 1901 (another example)
Bertram Mackennal Retrospective Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 August – 4 November 2007; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 November 2007 – 24 February 2008 (another example, lent by the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth)

Literature

Edwards, D., Bertram Mackennal: The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp. 5, 115 (illus., another example)