Showing posts with label Sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sculpture. Show all posts

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.

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.