Chris Beetles Gallery

Girl Asleep on a Chair

Sydney Harpley (1927-1992)

Price

£55,000

Signed

Signed and numbered 3/6

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

43 x 53 x 29 inches

Literature

The Royal Academy Illustrated, 1955, Page 84;
Manchester Guardian, 30 April 1955;
Contractors and Municipal Engineering, July 1955, 'Enchantment in Cement';
The Artist, July 1955

Exhibited

Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1955, No 1388, as 'Girl in a Chair' (in ciment fondu)

Number three from an edition of six
Conceived in 1954-55 and first cast in bronze in 1991 under the supervision of the artist.
Sydney Harpley created Girl Asleep on a Chair in ciment fondu, the only material that, as an impoverished young sculptor, he could afford. The model was a student at the Royal College of Art where Sydney was working from 1953 to 1956. In 1991, a year before his premature death, we fulfilled his ambition of casting it in bronze; the resulting full edition quickly sold out.

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