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Standing Figure
Purchased 1951
actions: postures and motions
adults
man
people
standing
sculpture bronze
Standing Figure
object: 362 × 111 × 117 mm
Purchased 1951
<strong>Fritz Wotruba</strong> 1907-1975
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wotruba-standing-figure-n06013" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N06013</span></a> <strong>Standing Man</strong> 1949-50
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Not inscribed<br/>
Bronze, 14 1/4 x 4 3/8 x 4 5/8 (36 x 11 x 11.7); the width and depth are mainly those of the protruding base<br/>
Purchased from the artist through the Hanover Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1951<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Wotruba: Sculpture</em>, Hanover Gallery, London, April-May 1951 (14) as 'Homme debout' 1948-50<br/>
<em>Repr:</em> Elias Canetti, <em>Fritz Wotruba</em> (Vienna 1955), pl.41, as 'Standing Figure' 1950; Friedrich Heer and Fritz Wotruba, <em>Fritz Wotruba</em> (Neuchatel 1961), pls.26-7 as 'Man standing' 1950
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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> wrote (letter of 14 August 1958) that this figure was made in 1949-50; there were about six <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/metal" title="Glossary definition for 'Metal'"><span>bronze</span></a> casts of which this must be the first or second. The figure is not directly related to any other work, except that his large 'Seated Figure' of 1949 in limestone (repr. Canetti, op. cit., pls.22-3) is rather similar in the relationship of the head and shoulders.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.765-6, reproduced p.765
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-14T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults man people standing