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Frederick Edward McWilliam, R.A.
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Frederick Edward McWilliam, R.A.
- Boy
- signed and numbered on the base: McW 2/3
- bronze
- height: 28cm., 11in.
- Conceived and cast in 1955, the present work is number 2 from an edition of 3
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to T. P. Flanagan and thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
London, Hanover Gallery, F. E. McWilliam: Sculpture, February - March 1956 (another cast);
Wakefield, City Art Gallery, Vision and Reality: an exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture, September - October 1956 (another cast);
Hillsborough, The Shambles Gallery, Sculpture by F. E. McWilliam, June - July 1988;
Banbridge, The F. E. McWilliam Gallery, F. E. McWilliam at Banbridge, September 2008 - February 2009
Wakefield, City Art Gallery, Vision and Reality: an exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture, September - October 1956 (another cast);
Hillsborough, The Shambles Gallery, Sculpture by F. E. McWilliam, June - July 1988;
Banbridge, The F. E. McWilliam Gallery, F. E. McWilliam at Banbridge, September 2008 - February 2009
Literature
Denise Ferran, The Sculpture of F. E. McWilliam, 2012, no.138, p.119, illustrated
Catalogue Note
With its use of flat shaped forms and its elongation, Boy is typical of McWilliams work of the later 1950s. It is reminiscent, too, of his later Banner works which are much sought after. The elongated head and neck, which employs biomorphic forms, is exactly what Bryan Robertson was speaking of. They can also be seen in Icon. The means of its making are also clear to be seen in the rough edges of what was formerly clay. There is a cast of Boy in the F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, Co. Down.