Paternoster (sculpture)
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| Artist | Elisabeth Frink |
| Year | 1975 |
| Type | Sculpture |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Location | London, EC4 United Kingdom |
| 51°30′53″N 0°05′56″W / 51.514647°N 0.098892°W | |
Paternoster (FCR 243), also known as Shepherd and Sheep or Shepherd with his Flock,[1] is an outdoor bronze sculpture of 1975 by Elisabeth Frink, installed in Paternoster Square near St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom.[2]
The sculptural group measures 84 by 129 by 32 inches (213 cm × 328 cm × 81 cm). It shows an androgynous shepherd herding five sheep. The subject of the artwork reflects the former use of
The work was commissioned by Trafalgar House for the north side of its 1960s development at Paternoster Square. It was unveiled in July 1975 by Yehudi Menuhin, who described it as "the antithesis of the buildings surrounding us". Around the same time, Trafalgar House also commissioned Frink's Horse and Rider statue, unveiled at Dover Street on Piccadilly in 1975.
It was removed in 1997 to a temporary location on London Wall near the Museum of London while the site was redeveloped, and was reinstalled in 2003 on a new Portland stone plinth after the redevelopment was completed.
A series of eight smaller versions was created in the 1980s. One example was installed at All Saints' Church in
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Cast of Picasso's 1944 sculpture Man with Sheep, Philadelphia Museum of Art -
Frink's 1974 sculpture Horse and Rider, in Mayfair
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See also
Notes
- ISBN 9781782434627. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ISBN 9781848221130. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
References
- About Paternoster
- London Gardens Online
- Recording Archive for Public Sculpture in Norfolk & Suffolk
- Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947–93, Annette Ratuszniak (ed.), Ashgate Publishing, 2013, ISBN 1848221134, p. 128
