Le boab
Le boab
Le boab
Le boab
Le boab
Le boab
Le boab

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A portrait head of a young man with North African features. His gaze looks down but with an insolent anger. The work is beautifully modelled but has a realistic feel. 'Le boab' means 'doorman' in French, and this figure was a servant of Tweed's great friend George Somers-Clarke, who lived and worked in Egypt. Tweed visited his friend several times in the 1920s and produced a similar portrait of Somers-Clarke which is now owned by St Paul's Cathedral. The two portraits provide an interesting comparison of coloniser and colonised.

Reading Museum

Reading

Title

Le boab

Date

1923–1924

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 54 x W 18 x D 18 cm

Accession number

REDMG : 2007.2160.1

Work type

Bust

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