Catalogue entry
T02382 YOUNG MAN 1969–71
Not inscribed
Painted polyester, fibreglass and inert fillers, wool, cotton and leather, 71 × 20 × 11 (180.5 × 51 × 28)
Presented by Mme Andrée Stassart 1979
Prov: Purchased by Barry Miller through the Whitechapel Art Gallery 1972 for Mme Andrée Stassart
Exh: John Davies, Whitechapel Art Gallery, June–July 1972 (3, repr.)
‘Young Man’ is a self-portrait but was deliberately not titled so. It was started in 1969 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, where John Davies had a studio for a year, while teaching at the Cheltenham Art College. An art student made a mould from Davies' head and body and the sculptor himself made a mould from his hands. Davies made the cast in polyester resin in his studio in Faversham, Kent, though he may have started on the head in Stroud… (read more)
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