Project

Details

John Milne (1931-1978)
Project
signed with initials, dated and numbered 'JEM/1971 6/9' (on the underside of the base)
aluminium
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high, excluding the base
Conceived in 1971 as an edition of 9.

Literature

P. Davies, The Sculpture of John Milne, London, 2000, p. 77, an earlier cast illustrated.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This tall tower-like composition, which reveals Milne's architectural interest, was issued in cold-cast aluminium and cold-cast bronze variations from an originating plaster. By contrast possible organic associations stem from the central upright, seeming to grow naturally from a 'bulbous' base configuration. To this extent Project is less sleekly monolithic than the similarly vertical Totemic of the same year, containing as it does two formal ideas - one entangled and ground-based the other straight, erect and sky-bound.
P.D.

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