Not on display
- Artist
- John Hoskin 1921–1990
- Medium
- Steel
- Dimensions
- Object: 533 x 724 x 178 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1961
- Reference
- T00412
Catalogue entry
T00412 STANDING FIGURE 1960
Not inscribed.
Mild steel, 21×28 1/2×7 (53×73×18), on wooden base, 1 3/4×10 3/4×7 1/2 (6×27×19).
Purchased from the Matthiesen Gallery (Knapping Fund and Grant-in-Aid) 1961.
Exh: Matthiesen Gallery, February–March 1961 (11).
Repr: Studio, CLXII, 1961, p.70.
The artist wrote (15 May 1961): ‘The piece you have is one of a series of standing figures which I started in October 1959. It is the first work in which I used sheet steel in conjunction with welding rods, fused together, following the use of sheet steel for the Christ at Bristol.’
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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