Roma III

The present work was executed in 1982 when Dubsky was invited to go out to the British School in Rome as Artist in Residence. In the last three weeks of his three month stay, Dubsky created this work and the Roma drawings and writes,'The sensuous, sculptered world of Rome and its magnificent architecture which I have always so loved and responded to, was like an eloquent signpost on a Via Sacra; and a strong and exciting exhibition 'Picasso and the Mediterranean' handsomely installed in Balthaus's austere renovations to the Villa Medici, provided an impulse toward those large crouching figures. What I re-discovered in those drawings, all of them very large in scale, and some combined with pastel, was the power of the plastic and the mutable process that charcoal endows. (see Exhib. cat. South London Art Gallery, X Factor 1984, 18 May - 21 June 1984, p.38-41)