MODERNIST SCULPTURE
A MIXED RECEPTION. i United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 25. Tlie Rima sensation is likely to be eclipsed by E.. P. Stein’s group unveiled to-day at the Underground Railway headquarters at Westminster. It represents a seated figure of night, carved in Portland stone. The “Daily Telegraph” critic describes it as a great coarse object, in dt* based Indo-Chinese style, representing a creature half-Buddha, half mummy, bearing on its knees < r i corpse r like child of enormous proportion. Other critics applaud Night as a ejia!ractbristic example of modernist art. Epstein is finishing a corresponding figure of Day. Eric Gill and other modernists supplied other decorative sculpture for the building, which is one of the foremost examples of business architecture in the metropolis.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1929, Page 5
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