Anthony Abrahams

Anthony Abrahams was born in London in 1926. He read English Literature at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, graduating in 1947, and painting at the Anglo-French Art Centre in London (1947-48). He followed a career in advertising, turning to sculpture in 1991.

A figurative sculptor working in the tradition of modern masters such as Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Elisabeth Frink and Bernard Meadows, Abrahams's expressive female figures have many qualities linking them back to early cultures. The Stone Age Venus of Willendorf c.1600 BC, carved from limestone, is endowed with a large, pregnant ...