Street art · London

The Hampstead Figure

By F. E. McWilliam

The Hampstead Figure by F. E. McWilliam, London
Photo: No Swan So Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0

Jagged bronze sails burst upward on a plinth outside a London leisure centre — 'The Hampstead Figure' looks like Cubist wreckage frozen mid-explosion, its rough textured planes echoing the fractured geometry of Lynn Chadwick's postwar bronzes.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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