Courtenay Edward Maxwell Pollock RBA (1877-1943)

Courtenay Edward Maxwell Pollock RBA (1877-1943)

Reclining Figure 1913

Bronze, lost wax cast, signed C Pollock

A beautiful sculpture which combines the influence of the New Sculpture movement and that of Rodin. Pollock was friends with Francis  Derwent-Wood and Frederic Pomeroy who were his sponsors for membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

He studied at Birmingham School of Art and, possibly, the Royal College of Art.

Pollock exhibited widely including the Bruton Gallery, London in 1904 and in 1937 at the Greatorex Galleries, London, the show was titled an 'Exhibition of sculptured portraits of women and men of fame and beauty by Courtenay Pollock'. His sitters included Sir Alfred East PRBA (1844-1913) and amongst his commissions was a bronze statue to General William Franklin Draper. The monumental statue is in Hopedale, Massachusetts, US.  Pollock was the sculptor of the figure of Victory for Newton Abbot's War Memorial. (1920-22).  Pollock also sculpted such notables as Joseph Chamberlain and newspaper barons, Lord Northcliffe and Rothermere.

In 1934 at British Industries Fair, Pollock exhibited "She," a rubber-covered skull whose electrically powered levers and gears allowed it a variety of facial expressions. The detached head became a sensation, with reporters predicting She would herald a new generation of automatons indistinguishable from the real thing.