Overview
- The 27cm bronze by Polish sculptor Fredda Brilliant is described as the earliest complete model for the Tavistock Square memorial installed in 1968.
- The piece is listed in Woolley & Wallis’s Modern British and 20th Century Art sale on Thursday.
- Specialist Victor Fauvelle highlights Brilliant’s growing reputation and notes previous fierce bidding for her Gandhi works.
- A second Gandhi maquette by Brilliant achieved £65,000 in a 2019 studio sale, and specialists suggest the new lot could exceed its guide.
- Reports also reference the Tavistock Square statue’s defacement in September, after which the Indian High Commission pressed local authorities to act.