♥♥ CLEMENT MEADMORE RARE SCULPTURE IN BRONZE SLIDE 1977

 
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The details of this work are as follows:

Artist: CLEMENT MEADMORE (1929-2005)

Title: Slide

Date of work: executed in 1977

Medium: cast bronze

Dimensions: 34.3 x 23.5 x 22.9 x 7.5cm. Weighs approx 2kg.

Description:

Incised with signature "Meadmore" and stamped with edition "5/12" lower edge (this work is number 5 from an edition of 12)

Stamped with foundry stamp "Morris Singer" lower edge

Note: several Meadmore sculptures were cast by the foundry AFTER Meadmore's death in 2005 (under Meadmore's instructions). This bronze was cast during Meadmore's lifetime and is hence signed by Meadmore himself. This is far more rare than the majority of Meadmore's sculptures on the market.

Provenance:

Private collection, United Stated of America

Post War and Contemporary Art, Wright, Chicago, 11 December 2007, lot 406

Important Paintings, Sotheby's, Sydney 22 April 2008, lot 79

Private collection, Melbourne; purchased from the above

Other Notes:

In the early 20th century, Pablo Picasso and Julio Gonzales pioneered 'open-form' sculpture, a new and radically modern approach to three-dimensional construction, with wiry lines describing the depths and margins of spatial voids. Against this innovation, the solid masses of traditional 'closed-form' sculpture began to seem somehow old-fashioned. However, in America in the 1960s the power of the monolith was reasserted: in David Smith's Cubi of 1962, in the geometric solids of Donald Judd and Robert Morris's minimalism, and in the twisted cubic strictures of the expatriate Australian Clement Meadmore.¹

Big, grave and carefully balanced, Meadmore's sculptures reflect influences diverse as his background in industrial design and furniture making, the curves of Art Nouveau architectural decoration, sturdy iron-age megaliths, and the refined abstract paintings of his friend Barnett Newman.

Eric Gibson has written of Meadmore's work: 'Besides the gestural and musical energies...that animate Meadmore's sculpture, there is their ability to express physical energy, the feeling of the human body in motion. Most often the association is of the body straining against itself, as in a bronze ballerina by Degas. This quality is apparent throughout Meadmore's work and is reinforced by titles such as Awakening, Push Up and Slide.'²

1. See Eric Gibson, The sculpture of Clement Meadmore, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1994, p. 42

2. ibid., pp. 100, 108

This work was purchased from Sotheby's in 2008 for $18,000 hammer which equated to just over $20,000 after buyer's commission, GST, and other charges. It had an estimate of $18,000 to $25,000. The sale is recorded on AASD as follows:

Meadmore, Clement. 1929-2005 Australia

Title                              Price                Details

Slide                               $18,000           Bronze, signed and stamped with foundry stamp on base, height: 32 cm, Est: $18,000-25,000, Sotheby's, Sydney, 22/04/2008, Lot No. 79

Edition 5/12. Provenance: Private collection, United Stated of America Post War and Contemporary Art, Wright, Chicago, 11 December 2007, lot 406 Private collection, Melbourne; purchased from the above A larger version of this work, Slide, was executed in 1977. Please see Eric Gibson, The Sculpture of Clement Meadmore (1994).

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Although this fine sculpture takes pride of place on my mantle and is the centre-piece of my collection, I require funds for a new business venture so need to part with it.  It will be sorely missed and will make a great addition to compliment your own collection.  Hopefully I will also see some return on my investment!

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