Resistance III, 1962
Bronze
43 x 38 x 26 cm
16 7/8 x 15 x 10 1/4 in
16 7/8 x 15 x 10 1/4 in
Signed with initials 'FEM'
Provenance
Waddington Galleries, London
Wilfrid Evill, 8th August 1962
Honor Frost, 1963, by bequest
Exhibitions
1962, London, Waddington Gallleries, Small Sculpture, July 1962, cat. no. 34
1965, Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid Evill Collection, cat. no. 277 (as Lynn Chadwick)
2016, London, Piano Nobile, Aspects of Abstraction: 1952-2007, 17 May - 23 June 2016, unnumbered
Literature
Roland Penrose, McWilliam, 1964, A. Tiranti, pl. 86 (illus.)
Frederick Edward McWilliam trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1928 to 1931, and subsequently in Paris, from 1931 to 1932. He became a member of the English Surrealists in 1938, and was a member of the Royal Academy in London from 1940 to 1945. In 1949 he became a member of the London Group.