Anthony Abrahams (British, 1926-2019) Balancing Bronze, signed and numbered edition 1 of 9 65cms high, 54cms wide, 22cms deep On view at: The Sculpture Park Anthony Abrahams read English Literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and subsequently studied painting at the Anglo French Art Centre, London. Abrahams then pursued a career in advertising until, in 1991, he turned to sculpture. Abrahams carefully poised, enigmatic figures follow a tradition in British sculpture that began in the 1950s with sculptors such as Armitage, Butler, Chadwick, Frink and Meadows. The exaggeration of some features and the repression of others, unified by formal and textural qualities, give his sculpture a personal and expressive quality as if Prehistoric fertility symbols had been reborn in the contemporary world. His emblematic figures, caught in playful postures, remind us of ourselves and of those familiar to us. His last major public work, Ozymandias, King of Kings, can be seen at King's Place, London
Anthony Abrahams (British, 1926-2019) Balancing Bronze, signed and numbered edition 1 of 9 65cms high, 54cms wide, 22cms deep On view at: The Sculpture Park Anthony Abrahams read English Literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and subsequently studied painting at the Anglo French Art Centre, London. Abrahams then pursued a career in advertising until, in 1991, he turned to sculpture. Abrahams carefully poised, enigmatic figures follow a tradition in British sculpture that began in the 1950s with sculptors such as Armitage, Butler, Chadwick, Frink and Meadows. The exaggeration of some features and the repression of others, unified by formal and textural qualities, give his sculpture a personal and expressive quality as if Prehistoric fertility symbols had been reborn in the contemporary world. His emblematic figures, caught in playful postures, remind us of ourselves and of those familiar to us. His last major public work, Ozymandias, King of Kings, can be seen at King's Place, London
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