ARTIST THUMBNAILS
One of Meadow's most important sculptures, Two Directors Reliefs belongs to a series of works by Bernard Meadows following a trip to Italy in 1960 which triggered a shift in his focus from animal to human. Now less interested in 'damaged' vulnerable figures, he began to explore human aggression.
A photograph of director Luchino Visconti with his arm extended as he fiercely points ahead while on the set of his film The Leopard (1963) is the inspiration behind the sculpture.
Bernard Meadows
Two Directors Reliefs
Bronze
60 H cms (23.58 x 0.00 ins)
1963
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Exhibited:
British Council, 32nd Venice Biennale, 1964
Henry Moore and the Geometry of Fear, James Hyman Gallery, 19 November 2002 - 18 January 2003
Literature:
Alan Bowness, Bernard Meadows. Sculpture and Drawings, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries Publishers, London, 1995, illustrated, p. 79.