- Artist
- Uli Nimptsch 1897–1977
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 584 × 1105 × 610 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1956
- Reference
- T00097
Catalogue entry
T00097 OLYMPIA c. 1953–6
Inscr. ‘U N’ on figure's left foot.
Bronze, 23×43 1/2×24 (58·5×110·5×61).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1956.
Exh: R.A., 1957 (1468), as ‘Reclining Figure’.
Repr: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1957, pl.85; Sir John Rothenstein, British Art since 1900, 1962, pl.37.
The artist worked on this figure for about three years, from 1953 until 1956 when it was cast. Another cast, now at Liverpool, was exhibited there April–May 1957 (34, the wax repr. on cover) under the title ‘Olympia’.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II