Design, Objects from The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation and English, Continental and South African Interiors
Live Virtual Auction, 27 June 2022
Design and Objects from The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation
About the SessionProceeds from the sale of lots 33 to 54 in this session will benefit The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation.
“The Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation was created to allow us to share our love of adventure writing with the world. Over the years, we have travelled together through Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, and in every country and culture we have found storytellers weaving tales of adventure. The foundation’s aim is to open a space for these writers, young and old, from across the globe, to shine. The first stage of our mission will be to award an annual prize for adventure writing – the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. The next stage will be to reach out to writers and readers across the world, bringing the spirit of adventure into their lives and inspiring them to undertake their own journeys of discovery. More than anything we want the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation to be an organisation that uplifts, inspires and educates.”
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About this Item
An Art Deco bronze figure of a maiden, Marion Walgate, British, 1881-1975
nude, modelled standing on the balls of her feet, with outstretched hands clutching a fruit and upturned face, raised on a rectangular base, on a green-veined marble pedestal base with faceted sides, signed M.B.Walgate, 37cm high
Notes
Marion Walgate (nee Mason) lived in London and created this bronze at the studio of Mr Parr in Chelsea. She sculpted the bronze statue of the seated Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town. She was married to the architect Charles Percival Walgate.
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