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Details
- Alternative title
- David fighting; Fighting David
- Date
- 1900
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze, cire perdu (lost wax)
- Dimensions
- 163.0 x 81.0 x 115.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated on base, "...Paul Landowski/ 1900".
- Credit
- Gift of Georges Parmentier 1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- SO1.1961
- Copyright
- © Estate of Paul Landowski/ADAGP. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Paul Landowski
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About
Paul Landowski is best known as the creator of the monumental art deco statue of 'Christ the Redeemer' that dominates the skyline of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This much earlier work, in a style more consistent with art nouveau, won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1900 – an honour that came very early in a long and illustrious career.
The subject of David and Goliath is one of the most iconic of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, one that has come to represent any battle of unequal adversaries in the fight between right and wrong. Here Landowski shows the shepherd David as young and vulnerable, but nonetheless clearly energised by his faith. We meet him in the instant he hurls his slingshot, to fell the mighty Philistine Goliath with one blow. -
Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962
Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1984–May 1985
Archie Plus, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Sep 2020–07 Mar 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Peter Haynes (Compilator), Famous people: a selective who's who from works in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1981, 4 (illus.).
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Raymond Isay, Paul Landowski, Paris, 1933?, 31 (illus.). plate no. 1
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Jules Romains, La Bibliotheque des Arts, 1961, (illus.), 15. plate no. 14
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Anna Waldmann, Renée Free and Nicholas Draffin, Salon and Académie: the charm of tradition: a catalogue of nineteenth-century European salon works, Sydney, 1984, (illus.). no catalogue numbers
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The magazine of art, London, 1901, 179 (illus.).
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