- Artist
- Frederick William Pomeroy 1856–1924
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 825 × 318 × 381 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Henry J. Pfungst 1898
- Reference
- N01762
Catalogue entry
N01762 DIONYSOS (?) 1890–91
Inscr. ‘ΔIÓNYΣOΣ’ on front of base and ‘F. W. Pomeroy, sc/91’ at back of base on r.
Bronze, 32 1/2×12 1/2×15 (82×31×38).
Presented by Henry J. Pfungst 1898.
Lit: Edmund Gosse, ‘The New Sculpture, 1879–1894’ in Art Journal, 1894, p.308, (?) the plaster repr. p.310; M.H. Spielmann, British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-Day, 1901, p.116.
Repr: (?) the plaster: Studio, XV, 1899, p.84; R.B.S., Modern British Sculpture, n.d. (1939), p.79.
In 1890 Pomeroy exhibited at the R.A. a ‘Dionysos-statuette’ (2080) which may well have been the plaster from which this bronze was subsequently cast. According to Gosse, loc. cit., the original plaster lacked the foliage which serves as a fig-leaf in the bronze, but the reproductions listed above, in which this feature is present, seem to be of a plaster. Another cast, signed and dated 1909, is in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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