Alastair Smart

The lost Victorian who sculpted Churchill

A review of Abstraction and Reality: The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones, by Jonathan Black and Sara Ayres. This follower of Rodin has a solid legacy, though his most famous commission was 'a most unpleasant business'

‘While some observers were impressed, others felt the depiction of a doddery Churchill propped up on a walking stick unbecoming’ [Getty Images/iStock/Shutterstock]

  • Abstraction and Reality: The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones

    Jonathan Black and Sara Ayres

    Philip Wilson Publishers, pp. 320

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