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Dimensions: height 25.5cm., 10in.

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Provenance: Private Collection, Japan, by early 1920s
Sale, Sotheby's London, 21 November 1962, lot 211, as Kneeling Figure, sold for 50gns
Edward and Millicent Carew-Shaw

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Exhibited:

London, Leicester Galleries, Frank Dobson, Sculpture and Drawings, November 1921, no.172, as Kneeling Figure (this version);
London, Arts Council Gallery, Frank Dobson: Memorial Exhibition, 22 June - 23 July 1966, no.1 (replacement version);
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, True and Pure Sculpture, 1981, no.3 (replacement version).

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Literature: Neville Jason and Lisa Thompson-Pharoah, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, no.4 illustrated pp.49 and 118 (replacement version illustrated).

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Notes: Executed in 1919. When the present work was originally sold to a Private Collector in Japan, Dobson produced another almost identical replacement version also titled Kneeling Female Figure. There are two related drawings in the Rutherston Collection, Manchester CIty Art Gallery.