A Conversation with Oscar Wilde
A Conversation with Oscar Wilde (detail)Category: Sculpture
Artist: Maggi Hambling
Year of Work: 1998
Media: bronze & granite
Size: 134.50cm x 96.50cm x 287cm
Maggi Hambling's work is the only public monument to Oscar Wilde in Great Britain. In 1997, Maggi Hambling was commissioned to create a statue to commemorate Oscar Wilde. The commission resulted in an exhibition of related work at the National Portrait Gallery. Situated in Adelaide Street, behind the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, "A Conversation with Oscar Wilde" was unveiled by Chris Smith, Minister for the Arts, on 30th November 1998.
Maggi Hambling with her sculpture 'A Conversation with Oscar Wilde'
A Conversation with Oscar Wilde
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