Basil Bunting - Portrait Bust of Basil Bunting

Portrait Bust of Basil Bunting

Basil Bunting sat in Northumberland for sculptor Alan Thornhill with a resulting terracotta (for bronze) in existence. The correspondence file relating to the Bunting portrait bust is held as part of the Thornhill Papers (2006:56) in the archive of the Henry Moore Foundation's Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and the terracotta remains in the collection of the artist.

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