The Unknown Political Prisoner

Artist John Damian Bourke (1918 - 1980)

Datec. 1952

MediumPainted plaster

Dimensions51 x 27 x 25 cm

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by Professor M. M. Macken, 1956. © The Estate of John Damian Bourke.

Object number1071

DescriptionA figure or composite group of figures bears a burden. The movement stems from a base and four legs emerge which join in the waist, above which three further forms suggesting arms are joined at the head or summit. The group is placed on a wooden plinth made in three pieces, two horizontal linked with a vertical, creating a stylised column.

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