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Paul Montford
Head of a man 1930
bronze
55.3 × 23.3 × 23.6 cm (overall)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of E. V. Hudson, 1958
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Head of a man
1930
Medium
bronze
Measurements
55.3 × 23.3 × 23.6 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of E. V. Hudson, 1958
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Paul Montford arrived in Melbourne in 1923 at the age of fifty-five, having already established a considerable reputation as a sculptor in Britain. During the late 1880s he had been an outstanding student at the Royal Academy of Arts’ schools in London, winning several scholarships and, in 1891, the Academy’s gold medal.
Although he died in Melbourne only fifteen years after his arrival, during this brief period Montford received numerous public commissions and produced almost seventy works. Amongst the most notable are his exterior sculptural groups for Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance, and the memorial to Adam Lindsay Gordon in Spring Street, Melbourne.
Artwork Details
Inscription
cast in base of neck in rear: Paul R. Montford. Sc. 1930
cast in base of neck l.r.: CHIURA (woman's profile) NAPLES (...illeg.)
Accession Number
1766-D4
Department
Australian Sculpture