Margarita Hernandez Portrait bust of Baroness Margaret Thatc...

Estimate

£4,000 - £6,000

Margarita Hernandez
Portrait bust of Baroness Margaret Thatcher
c. 2008
Bronze, edition of 2
Signed 'M Hernandez', inscribed 'Margaret Thatcher'

This portrait bust is one of two created by contemporary artist Margarita Hernandez in 2008.

A version was unveiled by Baroness Thatcher in 2008 in the Conservative Headquarters, to sit opposite a bust of Sir Winston Churchill in the office's reception.

Prime Minister at the time David Cameron said of the bust, "We now have two bronze statues in Conservative Party Headquarters. One is of Winston Churchill, the greatest wartime leader this country has ever had. And now it is joined by a statue of the greatest peacetime leader this country has ever had."

Provenance:
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013);
Thence by descent

Dimensions:
(Exc. base) 15.5. in. (H) x 8.5 in. (W) 
(Inc. base) 17.5 in. (H) x 8.5 in. (W)