
Born in 1924, Ellis Eringer was a jazz drummer, acted on Broadway, and drew animation for Walt Disney. In 1969 Papa Duke moved to London to focus on fine art. He discovered Padre Pio, the intercessionist. It is believed portraits Papa Duke painted of Padre Pio helped heal the illnesses of those to whom he gifted those icons. One of his large portraits of Padre Pio graces a wall inside St. Nicholas Cathedral in Monaco. Papa Duke died in 2008. This blog reveres his memory.
Showing posts with label Sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sculpture. Show all posts
Friday, April 22, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
HITLER: THE ULTIMATE TYRANT

This astonishing bronze bust features a grotesque glimpse of the Holocaust inside Hitler's hollow head.
To view it, one looks through Hitler's eyes.
Friday, February 25, 2011
HAROLD MACMILLAN

This bust, of the former British prime minister, is on permanent display in The Macmillan Room at the Carlton Club in London.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
"GEORDIE"
Yorkshiremen are known as "Geordies."
Papa Duke identified the quintessential "Geordie"--a man who used to hang out on Vale Royal, north London, where the artist kept his studio.
"Geordie" posed, Papa Duke sculpted, and the result is this bronze.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
FLAMINGO IN NATURAL HABITAT
In the early 1980s, Papa Duke produced a series of six-foot-tall flamingos. Several, in a fit of kitsch, he painted pink. Others he left naturally bronze.
The flamingo pictured here has crossed the Atlantic a number of times, and has resided, over the past quarter century, in London, Monaco, Washington DC and Santa Barbara.
This sculpture, in hollow bronze, is adored and coveted by all who have laid eyes upon it.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
For a period of about ten years, commencing 1979, Papa Duke went through a sculpturing phase.
He produced a number of works, several of which remain on permanent display at select London clubs.
This bust of George Bernard Shaw, sculpted in 1980, is cast in hollowed bronze.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)