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Frederick Edward McWilliam, R.A.
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description
- Frederick Edward McWilliam, R.A.
- Egg Head
- signed and dated: McW-83
- beech and cherrywood
- height: 63.5cm., 25in.
- Executed in 1983, the present work is unique.
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to T. P. Flanagan and thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
London, Waddington Gallery, 31 May - 23 June 1984;
London, New Art Centre, 1986;
London, Tate Gallery, F. E. McWilliam, May - July 1989, no.75 (illustrated in exh. cat.);
Hillsborough, The Shambles Gallery, 1994;
Banbridge, The F. E. McWilliam Gallery, F. E. McWilliam at Banbridge, September 2008 - February 2009
London, New Art Centre, 1986;
London, Tate Gallery, F. E. McWilliam, May - July 1989, no.75 (illustrated in exh. cat.);
Hillsborough, The Shambles Gallery, 1994;
Banbridge, The F. E. McWilliam Gallery, F. E. McWilliam at Banbridge, September 2008 - February 2009
Literature
Denise Ferran, F. E. McWilliam at Banbridge, 2008, p.118, illustrated;
Denise Ferran, The Sculpture of F. E. McWilliam, 2012, no.483, p.170, illustrated
Denise Ferran, The Sculpture of F. E. McWilliam, 2012, no.483, p.170, illustrated
Catalogue Note
Egg Head, which dates from 1983, is typical of McWilliam’s later work, being totally Surrealist. The head itself is a pun upon forms. These wood carvings that occupied McWilliam in the 1980s show the sculptor's great response to wood, creating works that Bryan Robertson called his 'poetic repertoire of fantastic biomophic shapes, anatomies and personages.'