Limestone
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gilbert-ledward-1485" aria-label="More by Gilbert Ledward" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Gilbert Ledward</a>
Monolith
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1936
actions: postures and motions
adults
arm / arms raised
branch
di Duccio, Agostino, sculpture
female
fine art and design, named works
nudes
objects
people
standing
woman
<p>Gilbert Ledward was the son of the sculptor Richard Ledward. He studied at both the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools and won the first British School of Rome Scholarship in Sculpture in 1913. He served with the Royal Artillery during the First World War and from 1919 on executed many war memorials in towns throughout Britain. The low relief carving on all four sides of this Monolith was inspired by the low relief work of the Italian Renaissance sculptor Agostino di Duccio, particularly his monument to Sigismondo Malatesta in the Cathedral at Rimini.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
sculpture limestone
16 May 2005 – 29 January 2006
2006-01-29
16 May 2005 – 29 January 2006
2006-01-29
2005-05-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-05-16
Sculpture 1933-1945
Collection based display
28 January 2011 – 4 September 2011
2011-09-04
28 January 2011 – 4 September 2011
2011-09-04
2011-01-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2011-01-28
Single Form: the body in sculpture from Rodin to Hepworth
Collection based display
Monolith
object: 1540 × 320 × 320 mm, 400 kg
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1936
<p>Gilbert Ledward was the son of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptor</span></a> Richard Ledward. He studied at both the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools and won the first British School of Rome Scholarship in Sculpture in 1913. He served with the Royal Artillery during the First World War and from 1919 on executed many war memorials in towns throughout Britain. The low <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/relief" title="Glossary definition for 'Relief'"><span>relief</span></a> carving on all four sides of this Monolith was inspired by the low relief work of the Italian <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/renaissance" title="Glossary definition for 'Renaissance'"><span>Renaissance</span></a> sculptor Agostino di Duccio, particularly his monument to Sigismondo Malatesta in the Cathedral at Rimini.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N04840</b> MONOLITH <i>c.</i> 1936
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Roman stone, 60 1/2×12 1/4×12 3/4 (153·5×31×32·5), carved in low relief on all four sides.
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1936.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1936 (1591).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1936, p.125.</p>
<p>Carved direct in the block as a result of seeing Agostino di Duccio's monument of Sigismondo Malatesta and Isotta in the Tempio, Rimini, and reading Adrian Stokes's study of this in his <i>Stones of Rimini</i> (letter from the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptor</span></a>, 4 January 1956).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults arm / arms raised branch di Duccio, Agostino, sculpture female fine art and design, named works nudes objects people standing woman