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Framed oil painting, signed and dated 2008.
Dimensions 51 x 41 cms (20" x 16)
Originally exhibited in the "Hawksmoor's Men" exhibition held at the Adonis Gallery in 2008
Nicholas Hawksmoor was a genius of English baroque architecture. The building behind the figure is the church of St George's in the East, a building that fired McCarthy's imagination during his Stepney childhood. The muscularity of the figure is contrasted with the strength and boldness of the architecture).
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