Bernard MeadowsStanding Figure 1951

Bernard Meadows b.1915

Standing Figure 1951

N06208

Elm 1549 x 457 x 381 (61 x 18 x 15)

Presented by the Arts Council of Great Britain 1954

Provenance:
Commissioned from the artist by the Arts Council of Great Britain 1950

Exhibited:
60 Paintings for ’51, Arts Council exhibition, Royal Society of British Artists Galleries, June-July 1951 (no number)

Literature:
Tate Gallery Report 1953-4, London 1954, p.21
Alan Bowness, Bernard Meadows: Sculpture and Drawings, London 1995, pp.10-11, 31, pls.10a-b

Reproduced:
Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, New York 1952, p.197

Standing Figure is remarkable in that it was produced for a major public commission even though it is one of Bernard Meadows’ earliest recorded sculptures. It is numbered ‘BM 17’ in the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work, and of the one hundred and thirty sculptures listed it is the only carving… (read more)