Oscar Wilde [installation]

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Title	Oscar Wilde [installation]
View	Overall view of the granite pillar topped with kneeling, pregnant woman
Notes	The sculptor describes this as a portrait of Wilde's wife Constance. The carved quotations are created from the handwriting of submitters, and filled with colored cement
Work Type	visual works sculpture (visual work)
Style/Period	Twentieth century
Creator Name	Osborne, Danny, 1949-
Creator Nationality	Irish
Date.Creator Birth	1949
Subject.work	allegory apparel contemporary (1960 to present) human figure literary or legendary portrait Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Country	Republic of Ireland
City	Dublin
State/Province	Leinster
Location.Notes	Merrion Square Park near 1 Marrion Square
Architectural Material	colored stone; granite; bronze; glass; jadeite; quartz
Technique	carving (processes); casting (process)
Dates	1997 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	4/16/2009
Subject Information	Merrion Square is a Georgian square on the south side of Dublin city center. It was laid out after 1762 and was largely complete by the beginning of the 19th century. The central railed-off garden is now a public park. The sculpture installation includes the figure of Wilde, sitting on a 30-ton natural rock (quartz) boulder, facing 1 Merrion Square, the house in which he grew up. Also part of the installation are two granite pillars, topped with blocks of green glass and inscribed with some of his quotations; one topped with a pregnant kneeling woman (representing his wife Constance) in bronze and the other a bronze torso of a man. Wilde's figure is highly detailed, with his clothes composed of multi-colored stones, including a green smoking jacket with red cuffs. The head and hands were originally porcelain, but have been replaced (2010, by Danny Osborne) with jadeite from Guatemala.
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)

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