Artwork
Untitled
Untitled is a photographic photography by Willy Zügel. It is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
About this work
Overview
This untitled photograph by Willy Zügel is a documentation of a small sculpture, mounted on green card and now held in the Archive of Art and Design.
Subject & Meaning
The image depicts a dark, rounded bird sculpture with its head tilted back, beak open, and feet on a flat base, emphasizing its shape and texture.
History & Provenance
The photograph was part of a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Parkes, a novelist, art historian, and librarian, had distributed questionnaires to sculptors in the 1920s, and this image was one of the responses received.
Artist & collection
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