- Artist
- Frank Dobson 1888–1963
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 1245 × 800 × 690 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1930
- Reference
- N04510
Catalogue entry
N04510 TRUTH 1930
Inscr. ‘Dobson’ at back of base.
Bronze, 50×30×25 (127×76×64).
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1930.
Coll: Purchased by the C.A.S. from the artist with the aid of public subscriptions 1930.
Exh: Leicester Galleries, May 1930 (no catalogue).
Lit: Kineton Parkes, The Art of Carved Sculpture, 1, 1931, p.30.
Repr: C.A.S. Report 1930–31, 1932, frontispiece; Earp, 1945, pl.22 (the plaster?).
Kineton Parkes, op. cit., says that ‘In “Truth”, the life-size statue in bronze of 1930, culminates the phase of intensive modelling with which Dobson was occupied for four or five years.’ A second bronze cast was bought by Sir James Dunn. The plaster was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1932 (British Pavilion, 132).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I