£28,000
The 'Swimming' series follows the earlier 'Meat Porter' series, which was a public commission for Harlow New Town. Brown was influenced by the distortion of the figure when immersed in water as seen through a rippling surface. He had been travelling in Greece prior to starting these works.
'Swimming' is the most prominent of a number of single figure works of the same subject. It was purchased by the Tate Gallery in 1960.
The artist wrote (14 July 1960): ‘The “Swimmers” is a recent and for me important work ... it carries my development away from realism, while my preoccupation remains with the human figure and movement’, and added (7 November 1960): ‘It was not prompted by any particular incident, but is one of a number of sculptures I have been making on this theme, none of which however I would regard especially as studies, with the exception of one or two reliefs which for me take the place of sketches or drawings.’
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