WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow. An Antiques Roadshow guest failed to react when her Gandhi sculpture, which had been stuck in a shed for a decade, was worth a fortune. During the filming of the BBC daytime series at Cheltenham Town Hall, expert Philip Mould met with a guest, who presented him with a stunning bronze Gandhi sculpture.
“It’s amusing to reflect that such a tranquil figure as this was created by such a wild Bohemian," he teased. The guest replied: “Yes, she was known for her wildness and she would never take no for an answer so she’d go up to you at a dinner party and say, ‘Your face is so interesting! I must sculpt you!’ “And she would introduce herself to everybody famous and just push herself.” The artist in question was Polish sculptress Fredda Brilliant, who was the guest’s aunt, having married her mother’s brother, film producer Herbert Marshall.
Mould continued: “So you have this maquette, this bronze for what is arguably the most famous image of Gandhi, the statue in Tavistock Square which she created, she made, and I think was unveiled by Harold Wilson, was it not? “And it’s now a place of pilgrimage, I see it from time to time and there’s quite often flowers in front of it.” Pointing to the hole underneath the image, she said: “That was the whole idea - it was done for that. “She was very proud of that.
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