Title
Lady Diana Duff Cooper (Lady Diana Manners)
(1909-circa 1918)
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Lady Diana Cooper
Diana Duff Cooper
Lady Diana Manners - Date
- (1909-circa 1918)
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze
- Dimensions
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40.6 x 28.8 x 24.0 cm bust; 50.0 x 28.8 x 24.0 cm bust and base
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base, 9 x 17.7 x 15 cm, marble base
- Signature & date
Signed verso, incised "Mackennal". Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Albert and Katey Nathan 1941
- Location
- Naala Nura, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 7156
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Bertram Mackennal
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 9 exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts, 1909, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1909–1909
Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1918), Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1918–1918
Canadian War Memorials exhibition (1919), Royal Academy of Arts, London, Jan 1919–Feb 1919
Exhibition of bronzes by Sir Bertram Mackennal K.C.V.O, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 07 Oct 1926–20 Oct 1926
Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Jan 1987–22 Feb 1987
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003
Bertram Mackennal, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 2007–04 Nov 2007
Bertram Mackennal, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 30 Nov 2007–24 Feb 2008
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 14 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Ursula Prunster, Face to face: Australian portraits, Sydney, 1986, (illus.). cat.no. 3
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Deborah Edwards, Bertram Mackennal: Catalogue raisonné, Sydney, 2007, (colour illus.). Artworks: Sculpture: 1900s
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Deborah Edwards, Look, 'Portrait sculpture: simultaneously the most artificial and the most "real"', pg. 29-31, Sydney, Sep 2003, 29 (colour illus.).
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Deborah Edwards, Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, Canberra, 2003, 42, 45 (colour illus.), 46, 83. cat.no. 52
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Deborah Edwards, Bertram Mackennal: the fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, ''Adaptability and versatility': Bertram Mackennal – an overview’', pg. 15-82, Sydney, 2007, 13 (detail, colour illus.), 48 (colour illus.), 57.
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Deborah Edwards., Australian sculpture 1890-1919, 'Australian sculpture 1890-1919', Sydney, 1987. no catalogue numbers
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Macquarie Galleries, Exhibition of bronzes by Sir Bertram Mackennal K.C.V.O, Sydney, 1926. cat.no. 25; titled 'Lady Diana Duff Cooper - portrait'; priced 150 gns
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Kate M Murphy, Art Monthly Australia, 'Presence & absence: Portrait sculpture in Australia at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra', pg. 10-13, Canberra, Apr 2004, 13 (illus.).
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Royal Academy of Arts, The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1909, London, 1909. cat.no. 1827; NOTE: Marble version titled 'The Lady Diana Manners - head'.
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Royal Academy of Arts and Burlington House, Canadian War Memorials exhibition (1919), London, 1919. cat.no. 727; titled 'Lady Diana Manners'; bronze
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Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy pictures and sculpture (1909), London, 1909, 72 (illus.). NOTE: Reproduction is of the original marble.
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Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, 1918, Edinburgh, 1918. cat.no. 40; titled 'Lady Diana Manners'; bronze
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Sotheby's Australia, Sotheby's Sydney: Australian and European paintings and sculpture, Sydney, 19 Jul 1992, (colour illus. of plaster cast). lot no. 120; plaster cast titled 'Bust of a young woman'.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Athenaeum., London, 26 Jun 1909, 764.
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