Set of four photographs of the Parthenon Sculptures, British Museum: a) Detail of seated god and goddess from the East frieze, b) Detail of horses from the South frieze, c) Statue from the East pediment, d) Head of a horse from the East pediment

Photographic prints, circa 1950s, framed

Each stamped on reverse ‘F.L. Kenett, The Studio, 4 Eldon Road London W8’

The largest 39.5 cm. high x 49.5 cm. wide (55.5 cm x 65.5 cm. incl. frame)

PROVENANCE:

From a private collection, England, two with labels for ‘Rainbird & McLean, London‘

“Unquestionably the greatest photographer of sculpting in the world who himself became a sculptor”. Tom Rosenthal, The Listener, 1960s

Frederick Leslie Kennett was born in Berlin in 1924 to a German Jewish doctor. Kennett was forced to flee the country in 1939 and came to England, joining the US Intelligence Corps during the war, where he developed an interest in photography. After the war he enrolled at the Guildford School of Art to study photography.

Following his studies Kennett undertook important commissions for museums, publishers, governments and collections across the world, specialising in photographs of sculpture and works of art. From the mid-sixties he stopped his work as a photographer to focus on becoming a sculptor himself, exhibiting in London and working in a studio flat in Kensington.

Price: £3,800 for the set

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