STUDY FOR HOMER II by Frederick Edward McWilliam RA

Frederick Edward McWilliam, HRUA,  RA 1909-1992STUDY FOR HOMER IIBronze, 91/2" (24cm), signed with initials, edition 3/3Provenance; Waddington Gallery, London 30 November 1961 where acquired by current owner.Literature: ''The Sculpture of F.E. McWilliam'', 2012, by Denise Ferran and Balerie Holman, Cat. No. 168, p123 By this point in his career, McWilliam was teaching sculpture at the Slade, and exhibiting all over the world, including London, New York and South America. This is a study for a large scale public sculpture, the year after his commission for Princess Macha at Altnagelvin Hospital, and demonstrates the artist's progression into large, freestanding, surface textured bronze works. The angular elongated legs of the figure preempts his exploration of legs in bronze, which occupied him in the late 1970s. The full size version of this sculpture is at Belfast City Hospital where it is affectionately known as 'The man with the broken arm'.