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Important Irish Art
,
wednesday 4th December 2013 at 6pm
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Frederick Edward McWilliam RA HRUA
(1909-1992)
Study for Homer II
Bronze, 24cm (9½”)
Signed with initials and numbered 3/3
Provenance: Waddington Galleries London, 30th
November 1961, where purchased and thence
by descent to current owner
Literature:
The Sculpture of F.E. McWilliam
, 2012, by
Denise Ferran and Valerie Holman, Cat.
No. 168, p123
By this point in his career, McWilliam was teaching
sculpture at the Slade, and exhibiting all over the world,
including London, New York and South America.
This is a study for a large scale public sculpture, the year
after his commission for
Princess Macha
at Altnagelvin
Hospital, and demonstrates the artist’s progression into
large, freestanding, surface textured bronze works. The
angular elongated legs of the figure preempts his explo-
ration of legs in bronze, which occupied him in the late
1970s.
The full size version of this sculpture is at Belfast City
Hospital where it is affectionately known as ‘The man
with the broken arm’.
€4,000 - 6,000
