Coffin for Max Wall, after 'Godot', 1994

Category: Sculpture

Artist: Maggi Hambling

Subject: Sculpture

Year of Work: 1994

Media: bronze

Size: 17.71" x 15.74" x 9.48"

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The moment Maggi Hambling worked with wax she knew that was the medium she needed. Together with Matt, her assistant at the Royal College, she made a bed of dampened sand which Hambling drew into with her hands and other implements. Into these indentations the hot wax was poured and allowed to cool. She could then assemble the elements with a hot metal tool. Once the piece was made, it could be cast in bronze. This is the lost wax process.

Hambling started making sculptures of coffins because they were part of a list of instructions she had written to herself in a sketchbook in September 1993. She had already come across Etruscan sculpture: small rectangular urns containing the ashes of dead people with highly animated portraits of them alive, lolling about on the lids.

This picture is also featured in, 'Maggi Hambling, the Works' by Andrew Lambirth. Book available from this website. See publications page.

author: iapmag

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