AN ENGLISH GREEN-PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'THE CATAPULT', cast from a model by William Reid Dick, of a nude boy aiming a catapault, on a naturalistic rocky base signed W Reid Dick and on a rectangular green marble plinth

AN ENGLISH GREEN-PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'THE CATAPULT', cast from a model by William Reid Dick, of a nude boy aiming a catapault, on a naturalistic rocky base signed W Reid Dick and on a rectangular green marble plinth

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AN ENGLISH GREEN-PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'THE CATAPULT', cast from a model by William Reid Dick, of a nude boy aiming a catapault, on a naturalistic rocky base signed W Reid Dick and on a rectangular green marble plinth

the figure: 14in. (35.5cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
H. Granville Fell, Sir William Reid Dick, K.C.V.O., R.A., London 1945, plate 2.
Jeremy Cooper, Nineteenth Century Romantic Bronzes, London, 1975, p. 98.

Lot Essay

First cast in 1911, The Catapult appeared in two sizes of which the present example is the smaller. In this charming figure, Reid Dick has skillfully captured the tension of the boy's body as he draws back the catapult to its full extent.

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