1912-1978
Waxworks at Madame Tussaud’s for “The Unsophisticated Arts”, 1951
Ref: 2351
Titled, annotated and with the artist’s studio stamp (verso)
Watercolour, 35 by 26 cm
Literature: Barbara Jones, The Unsophisticated Arts, 1951, p.119; Ruth Artmonsky, A Snapper Up of Unconsidered Trifles – A Tribute to Barbara Jones, Artmonsky Arts, 2008, no.A2
The present work is illustrated in black and white in Jones’s landmark 1951 book The Unsophisticated Arts – her highly influential exploration of popular everyday and vernacular arts in Britain. In her depiction of waxworks in London’s Madame Tussaud’s she shows four figures from Western Christianity: John Calvin, William Knox, William of Wykeham.
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