Woman With A Fish Statue is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1998. Statue.

Woman With A Fish Statue

WRENN ID
grim-slate-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1998
Type
Statue
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SP 7559 NORTHAMPTON DELAPRE GARDENS

725/7/10015 Woman with a Fish statue

II

Sculpture, originally a fountain. 1951 by Frank Dobson, Sculptor. Concrete, height 5'7". Seated woman with a fish, which originally had water coming out of its mouth. The female nude was a constant theme in the work of Dobson. His treatment of the subject related both the neo-classicism of Maillol and the study of primitive sculpture, particularly that of the East. This is Dobson's most successful public work and one of his finest late pieces. It was first exhibited at the second Battersea Park Sculpture Exhibition, in 1951, whence it was brought to Northampton. It was placed in this very appropriate garden setting in 1978.

Listing NGR: SP7595759157

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