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Sandra Bell (b.1954) Ellen Edition (2008) (Ellen McArthur Series)signed, numbered 1/8 & dated 2008
bronze - number 1 from an edition of 8
14 x 37 x 8cm (5 x 14 x 3in)
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist
Private Collection
€1,000-1,400 (£781-1,093)
Ellen McArthur was the first woman to circumnavigate the world solo, and she did it in only 94 days.
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Leo Higgins (b.1951) Winter Tree (2016)signed, numbered & dated ‘16
bronze - number 1 from an edition of 3
46 x 25 x 25cm (18 x 10 x 10in)
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist
Private Collection
€1,500-2,500 (£1,171-1,953)
Leo Higgins has produced a series of work based on the theme of ‘Winter
Tree’. A large version of which was installed in Grafton Street for a period of
six months in 2007. The Grafton Street sculpture installation was composed
of five white patinated bronze trees on black granite, each three metres high,
installed by Dublin City Council and The Solomon Gallery. Inspiration for
the series derived from a early morning journey to Leitrim Sculpture Centre,
Leo Higgins describes it as “one of those bleak, frosty mornings unique to
rural Ireland” Waiting at 6 am, he was struck by the bleak beauty of a bare
tree frosted white in the cold morning. In the following weeks he produced
his first sculpture in the series of Winter Tree for exhibition at the Royal Hi-
bernian Academy in 2005.