ALBERT TOFT (1862-1949) 'Joie de Vivre'

a nude female standing atop a ball on a bronze plinth, above a marble base, signed and dated 1927 to the reverse of the ball, bronze, 28cm high overall

A member of the British New Sculpture movement, Toft is well known for his public commissions of Royal and notable subjects and for his First World War memorials. Less familiar is his small scale work, in bronze and other materials, of which this is a good example, blending as it does romance, realism and Art Deco.