Moelwyn Merchant
Trojan Figure II, c. 1978
Bronze (with alabaster base)
8 inches high
No. 2 from the edition of 5
Signed to base
Currency:
Provenance
Private Collection
Note: In a catalogue entry from his Sculptor and Poet exhibition in 1998: ‘Merchant said his Helmet was “a protest against the mindlessness of mere power”. The maquettes show the development of Merchant’s use of Etruscan forms until, in the central figure, with its faceless arrogance, he achieves what he wished to convey. The final large scale figure was cast in iron, ten feet high, and is now in the Margam Sculpture Park, near Port Talbot. At the opening, it received the approval of Elizabeth Frink, whose work Merchant greatly admired and who was to become a friend.”’