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Head of a man
1930
- Medium
- bronze
- Measurements
- 55.3 × 23.3 × 23.6 cm (overall)
- Inscription
- cast in base of neck in rear: Paul R. Montford. Sc. 1930
cast in base of neck l.r.: CHIURA (woman's profile) NAPLES (...illeg.) - Accession Number
- 1766-D4
- Department
- Australian Sculpture
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of E. V. Hudson, 1958 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Paul Montford arrived in Melbourne in 1923 at the age of fifty-five, having already established a considerable reputation as a sculptor in Britain. During the late 1880s he had been an outstanding student at the Royal Academy of Arts’ schools in London, winning several scholarships and, in 1891, the Academy’s gold medal.
Although he died in Melbourne only fifteen years after his arrival, during this brief period Montford received numerous public commissions and produced almost seventy works. Amongst the most notable are his exterior sculptural groups for Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance, and the memorial to Adam Lindsay Gordon in Spring Street, Melbourne.
