Apr 05, 2018 - Sale 2472

Sale 2472 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
MARGARET BURROUGHS (1915 - 2010)
Head of a Girl.

Cast bronze, with a brown patina, 1959-60. Approximately 267 mm; 10 1/2 inches high, not including marble base. Incised with the artist's initials "M. B." at the rear edge.

Provenance: Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans; private collection, Florida.

We have found only one other record of a bronze by Margaret Burroughs at auction. There are few records of specific works in bronze - known titles include Black Queen and Head, 1963.