In Tate Britain
- Artist
- Ghisha Koenig 1921–1993
- Medium
- Terracotta on wooden base
- Dimensions
- Object: 500 × 600 × 310 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1995
- Reference
- T06952
Display caption
Koenig was interested in the lives of the working class and from the mid-1950s onwards she regularly sketched people working in factories. These drawings were the source material for her sculptures which capture people in all their physical diversity, performing their allotted tasks with varying degrees of enthusiasm. As such they were not idealised visions of the dignity of labour but purported to be truthful records of factory life.
Gallery label, August 2019
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