Old Flo - The Terminate Of The Story?
Back inwards 2012 I wrote Henry Moore Sculpture - a real pathetic precedent for world art about the proposal past times the Mayor of my local Council to sell off the Henry Moore statue which Moore had personally gifted to the East End of London afterward the Second World War.
I cited vi reasons why the proposal was a truly bad thought inwards relation to world ownership of fine art past times famous artists - together with this move inwards particular.
The statue is officially called 'The Draped Seated Woman' precisely it has been colloquially called 'Old Flo' for a real long time
That was until 1997 when it went 'on a holiday' to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year inwards 2014) when the Stifford Estate was demolished.
You tin encounter her enjoying the views inwards the bracing air upward inwards Yorkshire below!
So is this the halt of the story? Is "Old Flo" truly returning to Tower Hamlets?
It sure enough seems every bit if at that topographic point is some incentive to instruct the statue dorsum together with to honor a prophylactic identify for it to endure displayed.
The novel Mayor John Biggs has stated
The Museum of London stated
Possible venues include the Museum inwards Docklands, Canary Wharf together with the University of London's Queen Mary College inwards Mile End.
My vote is for the latter - alongside a place side past times side to the Canal where she could endure seen easily past times everybody who walks upward together with downwards the Regents Canal.
I cited vi reasons why the proposal was a truly bad thought inwards relation to world ownership of fine art past times famous artists - together with this move inwards particular.
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| "Old Flo" past times Henry Moore inwards situ on the Stifford Estate |
Old Flo was a symbol of promise together with regeneration afterward the destruction of bombings inwards the expanse caused past times WWII.In brief the statue had originally been located on a GLC housing estate called the Stifford Estate.
That was until 1997 when it went 'on a holiday' to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year inwards 2014) when the Stifford Estate was demolished.You tin encounter her enjoying the views inwards the bracing air upward inwards Yorkshire below!
An Update on Old Flo
Since together with then iv things receive got happened- The London Borough of Bromley tried to assert its ownership of the statue every bit the balance legatee of GLC belongings non defined inwards transfer documents on the demise of the GLC. Hence it applied for an injunction to halt the sale - for which nosotros give thank y'all Bromley! However it together with then took activity to recover what it saw every bit its its belongings - inwards the absence of paperwork which proved LBTH's ownership. Tower Hamlets answer was to stake its claim of ownership.
- New twist inwards row over ownership of Henry Moore's 'Old Flo'
- Lutfur Rahman corruption verdict: Tower Hamlets mayor guilty of corruption together with election effect is declared void (Evening Standard)
- Lutfur Rahman played the Islamophobia carte du jour to quiet his critics. And likewise many on the left roughshod for it (The Independent)
- Tower Hamlets: how a dictatorship flourished inwards the East End (The Guardian)
- A fresh election was run - together with a novel Mayor was elected - inwards June 2015. After which request it became clear that a sale would non endure pursued.
- The High Court constitute that Tower Hamlets did ain the Moore statue afterward all. Last calendar week the High Court determined that Tower Hamlets produce ain the statue.
So where volition the statue endure located inwards future?
It sure enough seems every bit if at that topographic point is some incentive to instruct the statue dorsum together with to honor a prophylactic identify for it to endure displayed.
The novel Mayor John Biggs has stated
“I am delighted Tower Hamlets has been confirmed every bit possessor of Old Flo. I want to reiterate my intention to contrary the previous mayor’s determination to sell Henry Moore’s sculpture, Draped Seated Woman. I believe that it belongs to the people of E London together with should endure available locally for world enjoyment.”... alongside an emphasis on 'local' together with 'people of East London'.
The Museum of London stated
“We experience passionately that Henry Moore intended this of import artwork for the people of London together with especially the people of Tower Hamlets, which suffered thence badly during the Blitz. The argue nosotros opposed the sale thence fervently was because it went against the intentions of the artist, together with it risked going out of world sentiment forever, into a individual collection together with maybe fifty-fifty abroad. Sending Old Flo to Yorkshire was the correct affair to produce at the time, every bit she had fallen into disrepair, the estate was bulldozed together with she needed looking after, precisely instantly she's had her holiday, it’s fourth dimension for her to come upward dorsum home.”
Possible venues include the Museum inwards Docklands, Canary Wharf together with the University of London's Queen Mary College inwards Mile End.
My vote is for the latter - alongside a place side past times side to the Canal where she could endure seen easily past times everybody who walks upward together with downwards the Regents Canal.
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