- Artist
- Sir Charles Wheeler 1892–1974
- Medium
- Bronze on stone base
- Dimensions
- Object: 1626 × 1308 × 648 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1930
- Reference
- N04548
Catalogue entry
N04548 SPRING 1929–30
Not inscribed.
Bronze, 64×51 1/2×25 1/2 (162·5×131×65), including base 1×14 3/4×17 1/8 (2·5×110×43·5).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1930.
Exh: R.A., 1930 (1630).
Repr: Souvenir catalogue, Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture, Battersea Park, May–September 1948, p.32; Iskusstvo, Moscow, No.8, 1959, p.54.
Another bronze cast made at the same time is still (1963) in the artist's possession. A modified version of the head was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1934 (1581) and is reproduced in Royal Academy Illustrated, 1934, p.120.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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