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Lying Down Figure/Reclining Figure VI

Lying Down Figure/Reclining Figure VI

1961

Sculpture : bronze

© The Estate of F.E. McWilliam

Image credit University of Leeds

Details

Artist(s): McWilliam, F E (1909-1992)(Artist)

Title: Lying Down Figure/Reclining Figure VI

Date created: 1961

Accession number: LEEUA 1966.034

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/783

Collection group(s): University Art Collection

Description

An Irish painter turned sculptor, McWilliam’s capricious imagination attracted him to the British surrealists in the late 1930s. Serving in India during the Second World War, he afterwards taught at Chelsea School of Art and at the Slade. This piece was one of a dynamic series produced in the early 1960s which make playful reference to and, perhaps, parody the great reclining figures of Henry Moore, who was a personal friend.

Physical characteristics

Category: Sculpture

Technique: bronze

Medium: bronze

Object: width 692mm height 419mm

Features

Incised signature Mc.W and numbered 2/5

Accession details

Accession number: LEEUA 1966.034

Accession date: 1966

Credit: © The Estate of F.E. McWilliam

Source: Gift; Burton, Stanley Howard

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Lying Down Figure/Reclining Figure VI

Online exhibition: Lying Down Figure/Reclining Figure VI

Lying Down Figure/Reclining Figure VI by F E McWilliam (1909-1992) held in the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds.

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