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An Irish painter turned sculptor, McWilliam’s capricious imagination attracted him to the British surrealists in the late 1930s. Serving in India during the Second World War, he afterwards taught at Chelsea School of Art and at the Slade. This piece was one of a dynamic series produced in the early 1960s which make playful reference to and, perhaps, parody the great reclining figures of Henry Moore, who was a personal friend.