Molly Rose Le Bas later Molly Brocas Burrows (13 June 1903–1996) was a British artist and sculptor.

Biography

Le Bas was born in the Stoke Newington area of London, the daughter of an iron and steel magnate and the sister of the painter and collector,

Edward Le Bas Edward Le Bas RA (1904–1966) was a British artist and art collector. Biography Le Bas was born in London and was the son of a wealthy steel magnate and the brother to the sculptor Molly Le Bas. Le Bas read architecture at Cambridge Universit ...

, (1904–1966). After a private education and time at Broomfield Hall, Molly Le Bas studied sculpture in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Le Bas exhibited statuettes and sculptures in bronze, stone and marble at the Royal Academy, the

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in Liverpool, with the

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and at the Paris Salon. She married Montagu Brocas Burrows in 1932 and after living in London, Le Bas lived at

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in West Sussex.

References

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