Not on display
- Artist
- Maurice Lambert 1901–1964
- Medium
- Alabaster on slate base
- Dimensions
- Object: 387 × 622 × 349 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by D.H. Conner 1932
- Reference
- N04640
Display caption
Like Epstein's Jacob and the Angel and the sculptures opposite these works are carved from alabaster which probably originated in Derbyshire, England. One of the characteristics of alabaster is its translucency. The passage of light through the wing adds an appropriate lightness to Lambert's Swan, while Skeaping's Gazelle seems almost to glow. The softness of the stone facilitated the carving of the details of the gazelle and its accompanying palm tree.
Gallery label, August 2004
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Catalogue entry
N04640 SWAN 1932
Inscr. ‘M.L.’
Alabaster, 15 1/4×24 1/2×13 3/4 (38·5×62×35), on black slate base, 2 7/8×14×10 1/2 (7·5×35·5×26·5).
Presented by D. H. Conner 1932.
Exh: Lefevre Gallery, May 1932 (18).
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Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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