AFTER ERIC GILL Votes for women portland stone 19 x 16 1/4 in. (48.3 x 41.2 cm.) The whereabouts of the original artwork the present lot refers to are currently unknown. In 1911, Gill had his first highly successful exhibition of sculpture at the Chenil Gallery in Chelsea where Votes for Women was exhibited. Highly controversial due to its explicit nature, it was only available to be viewed on demand in the back room. It was sold to the economist John Maynard Keynes, who paid £5 for it. ‘Photographs suggest it is one of the most intriguing of his early works and proof of the elasticity of concept that allowed him to veer between such sexually blatant sculptures and the sequence of devout Madonna-and-child carvings that he was also making at the time.’ (See: Fiona MacCarthy, 17 October 2009, See: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/17/eric-gill-exhibition-fiona-maccarthy)