Running Figure c. 1985
John Doubleday
c 1985
Graphite on paper
19.5 x 19.5cm (unframed) 32.0 x 34.5 (framed)
Signed top left.
John Doubleday was born in 1947 and studied sculpture at Goldsmith’s College. After moving to Essex he became part of a circle of artists centred around Wivenhoe, that included Dickie Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller.
These two had a tempestuous friendship with Francis Bacon, who owned a studio in the town. Doubleday remembers once seeing Chopping chasing Bacon up Wivenhoe High Street with a meat cleaver.
While Doubleday’s early sculptures tend to be more abstract - his 1964 Maquette for ‘Building Blocks’ is in the Tate Collection - his later work has focussed on the human figure.
An excellent draftsman, Doubleday’s drawings are closely connected to his sculptural practice. The drawing here betrays the influence of Edweard Muybridge and his photographs of animal locomotion which inspired the work of Wirth-Miller and Bacon.
Doubleday may also have been looking Leonardo, who illustrated the appearance of a horse in movement by drawing multiple limbs, giving the drawing a blurred effect.
John Doubleday
c 1985
Graphite on paper
19.5 x 19.5cm (unframed) 32.0 x 34.5 (framed)
Signed top left.
John Doubleday was born in 1947 and studied sculpture at Goldsmith’s College. After moving to Essex he became part of a circle of artists centred around Wivenhoe, that included Dickie Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller.
These two had a tempestuous friendship with Francis Bacon, who owned a studio in the town. Doubleday remembers once seeing Chopping chasing Bacon up Wivenhoe High Street with a meat cleaver.
While Doubleday’s early sculptures tend to be more abstract - his 1964 Maquette for ‘Building Blocks’ is in the Tate Collection - his later work has focussed on the human figure.
An excellent draftsman, Doubleday’s drawings are closely connected to his sculptural practice. The drawing here betrays the influence of Edweard Muybridge and his photographs of animal locomotion which inspired the work of Wirth-Miller and Bacon.
Doubleday may also have been looking Leonardo, who illustrated the appearance of a horse in movement by drawing multiple limbs, giving the drawing a blurred effect.
John Doubleday
c 1985
Graphite on paper
19.5 x 19.5cm (unframed) 32.0 x 34.5 (framed)
Signed top left.
John Doubleday was born in 1947 and studied sculpture at Goldsmith’s College. After moving to Essex he became part of a circle of artists centred around Wivenhoe, that included Dickie Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller.
These two had a tempestuous friendship with Francis Bacon, who owned a studio in the town. Doubleday remembers once seeing Chopping chasing Bacon up Wivenhoe High Street with a meat cleaver.
While Doubleday’s early sculptures tend to be more abstract - his 1964 Maquette for ‘Building Blocks’ is in the Tate Collection - his later work has focussed on the human figure.
An excellent draftsman, Doubleday’s drawings are closely connected to his sculptural practice. The drawing here betrays the influence of Edweard Muybridge and his photographs of animal locomotion which inspired the work of Wirth-Miller and Bacon.
Doubleday may also have been looking Leonardo, who illustrated the appearance of a horse in movement by drawing multiple limbs, giving the drawing a blurred effect.