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Naked Pigmy looking up to Naked Girl and Man on Tree and Naked
Sculptor: Gill, Eric
Two woodblock carvings, each with gesso on the front face. A is in the form of a smooth slender trunk with a single leaf projecting from the right side, three pairs of lanceolate leaves branching off the left, a stick-like man at the bottom seizing the lowest sideshoot, and a girl hanging on to the topmost shoot by her left hand. B is in the form of scrolling serrated edged leaves with a daisy head at the top, a kilted bearded man half-way up, and at the bottom, a naked woman with long hair, who is bending down and grasping the base of the plant as if to uproot it. Each is mounted on separate rectangular ebonized wood blocks, which are mounted on a larger, deep rectangular ebonized wood base.
History note: Robin Katz Fine Art, 13 Old Bond Street, London, W1S 4SX from whom purchased by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum to celebrate their Centenary
Width: 3.5 cm
Width: 4.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2009-12-01) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
1920s
20th Century, second quarter#
George V
Production date:
AD 1927
Gill and his wife lived at Capel y Ffin between 1924 and 1928
Base
composed of
wood
( ebonized)
Surface
composed of
gesso
( off whte)
Base For Both
Depth 11.8 cm
Height 6 cm
Width 24.9 cm
B Base
Depth 4.2 cm
Height 2 cm
Width 7 cm
A Base
Depth 4.5 cm
Height 2 cm
Width 5.5 cm
B
Height 17.7 cm
A
Height 18.1 cm
Front Face
blackened Wood
Carving : Wood, carved, blackened and gessoed
Accession number: M.11A & B-2009
Primary reference Number: 169748
Entry form number: 1034
External ID: CAM_CCF_M_11A & B_2009
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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