MODERN SCULPTURE COLLECTION

BRYAN KNEALE R.A.
[1930 - ]

BRYAN KNEALE

Ring
1972
bronze and steel
unique
18 cm high
Provenance: The artist;
Brian Montgomery collection;
Chorley auction, 24 Apr. 2010, 246

BRYAN KNEALE

Carousel
2010
stainless steel
unique
23 x 23 x 23 cm
Provenance: The artist;
Beaux Arts Gallery, May 2011;
Private collection, St Albans;
Tring Market auctions
17 June 2016, lot 112

BRYAN KNEALE

Clytemnestra
1986
bronze
edition of 6
38 cm high
Provenance: The artist;
Royal Academy Summer Exhib.
1987, no. 1109;
Private collection, UK
[Clytemnestra was the wife of King Agamemnon and not the most pleasant of women]

BRYAN KNEALE

Beast - God - Theriomorph
1960
oil on canvas
signed and dated
77 x 127 cm

Bryan Kneale was born on the Isle of Man and studied at the Royal Academy Schools of Art.
He quickly became a very successful painter, exhibiting at the Redfern Gallery in the 1950s.
I have met several collectors who had the choice of a Bryan Kneale or Francis Bacon painting at the same price in the 1950s and all chose the Kneale.
In 1960 he stopped painting and moved to sculpture.
After a major one-man exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery [1966], he became the first abstract sculptor Royal Academician in 1974.
Public collections include the Tate Gallery and Museum of Modern Art [New York].