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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/maurice-lambert-1458" aria-label="More by Maurice Lambert" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Maurice Lambert</a>
Homo Sapiens
Presented anonymously 1937
<p>Maurice Lambert was born in Paris, the son of the painter George Lambert and the brother of the composer Constant Lambert. Maurice was fascinated by the movements of animals and birds and spent much time studying them at London Zoo. He began to make sculpture incorporating the flight of birds as early as 1926 and he liked to mix different sculptural materials within a single work. 'Homo Sapiens' is a major example of Lambert's work and its subject is the harmony between man and the natural world, illustrated by the bird at the man's shoulder and the fish at his feet.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
sculpture bronze stone
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
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Homo Sapiens
object: 1353 × 521 × 762 mm
Presented anonymously 1937
<p>Maurice Lambert was born in Paris, the son of the painter George Lambert and the brother of the composer Constant Lambert. Maurice was fascinated by the movements of animals and birds and spent much time studying them at London Zoo. He began to make <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>sculpture</span></a> incorporating the flight of birds as early as 1926 and he liked to mix different sculptural materials within a single work. 'Homo Sapiens' is a major example of Lambert's work and its subject is the harmony between man and the natural world, illustrated by the bird at the man's shoulder and the fish at his feet.</p>
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<p><b>N04875</b> HOMO SAPIENS 1937
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<br/>Inscr. ‘ML’ in monogram on fish.
<br/>Bronze figure, 53 1/4×20 1/2×30 (135×52×76), on stone column, 61 1/4 (156) high and 7 1/4 (18·5) diameter, and base, 3×14 1/2 (7·5×37).
<br/>Presented by an anonymous donor 1937.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Another cast: National Society, 1937 (456); the plaster: National Society, 1938 (414).</p>
<p>A second <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/cast" title="Glossary definition for 'Cast'"><span>cast</span></a> is in the possession of Mrs. J. B. Priestley.</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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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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