A collection of works by the Australian-born artist Barbara Tribe (1913-2000) will go under the hammer at Bonhams in Knightsbridge, on 20 May 2008. Over 200 lots of sculpture, watercolours and ceramics from the artist’s studio in Cornwall are to be sold by the Barbara Tribe Foundation. The collection charts Tribe’s extraordinary life, from her early career in Australia to her years in war-torn London and Cornwall.

The Barbara Tribe Foundation was set up under Tribe’s Will, after her death in 2000, to further the artist’s desire to aid the development and appreciation of sculpture in Australia. It is proposed from mid 2008 the funds generated by the Foundation and projects initiated under its auspices, will be administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Posted: 03|7|08 at 4:27 pm. Filed under: Auction News.