"by far the greatest loss" of the fire, but it was initially not mentioned in news reports, until publicised by the campaigning art group the Stuckists on their web site (billed as a "world exclusive"). Five days before the fire, the family had paid £5,508 in back fees. Remarkably, although the left hand side of the triptych was completely destroyed, the sculptor's son, Christopher Redgrave, was able to personally retrieve, in two trips, at least 30 of the 228 figures in good shape – about a third of the central panel, as well as other fragments, though cutting his hands badly on broken glass in the process. He described the experience: There was a smell of rotting food, rotting chips, rotting meat from one of the units Momart shared the building with ... There were bits of glass hanging from the roof. I had to climb over steel girders. It looked like a twisted rollercoaster that had crashed. As far as is known he is the only person out of the artists or artists' relatives to have been to the site; he said, "this building was inappropriate for what they are doing. There's no way around that." Notes and references External links 1903 births 1986 deaths Modern sculptors 20th-century British sculptors British male sculptors 20th-century British male artists