Crown Woods School, Eltham;
Private Collection, UK
Exhibition History:
London, Sotheby’s, Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 10 – 21 January 2011;
London, Canary Wharf, Sculptures from The Ingram Collection, 16 September – 15 November 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
Chester, Chester Cathedral, ARK, 7 July – 15 October 2017
Literature:
Alan Bowness, Bernard Meadows, Sculptures and Drawings, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1995 (BM67, p.141)
Meadows’ work of the 1950s was primarily focused on birds, in particular the cockerel. The artist commented, “birds can express a whole range of tragic emotion, they have a vulnerability which makes it easy to use them as vehicles for people.” This sculpture is unique and was commissioned by Crown Woods School, Eltham in 1959, for the fountain in their grounds. For many years it was thought to have been destroyed, until it re-surfaced at auction and was purchased by The Ingram Collection.
, 1959)
