Hammer highlights
The highlight of the sale held by Barry Hawkins (18% buyer’s premium) in Downham Market, Norfolk on January 18 was a cast of the Jean-Jacques Feuchere (1807-52) sculpture Mephistopheles or Satan.
Titled Satan when first exhibited in plaster at the Salon of 1834 and cast in bronze the following year, it proved an influential work for its Romantic portrayal of Mephistopheles as a melancholic rather than a monstrous creature.