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Europa and the Bull, 1946
By Frank Dobson
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Frank Dobson was born in London on 18 November, 1886. The son of a commercial artist, he showed early promise and won an art scholarship aged eleven. On leaving school at the age of fourteen he became a studio assistant to the sculptor William Reynolds Stevens. He then studied at Hospitalfield Art School in Scotland. His work was influenced by his exposure to the modernist art shown in Roger Fry’s landmark exhibition of 1910-11. After spending World War 1 in the Artists Rifles, he showed his first sculptures in Wyndham Lewis’s 1920 Group X exhibition.
Over the years he moved from his early Cubist-inspired sculpture to a more lyrical style based on the female nude form. He also produced a series of notable portrait busts. His work was praised by Roger Fry as ‘true and pure sculpture’ and the critic Clive Bell described his Cornucopia as ‘the finest piece of sculpture which has been produced by an Englishman’
After World War II he was appointed professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art and awarded the CBE.
Over the years he moved from his early Cubist-inspired sculpture to a more lyrical style based on the female nude form. He also produced a series of notable portrait busts. His work was praised by Roger Fry as ‘true and pure sculpture’ and the critic Clive Bell described his Cornucopia as ‘the finest piece of sculpture which has been produced by an Englishman’
After World War II he was appointed professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art and awarded the CBE.
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Bronze from the 1946 plaster, cast in 2021 in an edition of 12.
Dobson Estate stamp.
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Black Isle Foundry stamp.
'Europa and the Bull (1946) — the other erotic sculpture among this group of works — takes as its subject the encounter of Zeus in the form of a bull, with the daughter of a legendary king of Tyre. The warm brown patina of this piece enhances the intimacy of the embrace, as the bull nuzzles Europa’s left breast. But it’s pretty mild stuff, and offers scant justification for holding it on a charge of impropriety as the American Customs did when it was sent over to the USA for exhibition.'
Andrew Lambirth, Frank Dobson 'Bring it Alive'. Goldmark 2022.
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