
Bernard Meadows
Cock, 1958
bronze with a dark brown patina
29.5 cm; 11 ½ in high
Edition of 6 plus 1
JC113
Provenance
Sotheby’s, London, 28 June 2006, lot 219, where purchased.Exhibitions
New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Sculpture by Bernard Meadows, January - February 1959, no. 28 (another cast).London, Gimpel Fils, Recent Sculpture by Bernard Meadows, May 1959, no. 34, illustrated p. 6 (another cast).
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: 25 Years, January - April 2018.
London, Sotheby's, Jerwood Collection: 25, June 2018.London,
Lyon & Turnbull, Sculpted: The Art of the Object, November - December 2018.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, A Curator's Choice, May-August 2021.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Jerwood Collection; 25, 2018, p.26, illustrated.A. Bowness, Bernard Meadows, Sculpture & Drawings, London, 1995, pp. 54 and 138, no. BM47, pl. 33 (another cast illustrated).
Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 33.
J. Carver, ‘'Scuttling across the floors of silent seas': revisiting the sculptures of the Geometry of Fear’, Artuk.org, June 2020, illustrated.