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Bronze sculpture 'Athlete and Hound' by F N Bose ARSA

Photographer: unknown

Bronze sculpture 'Athlete and Hound' by F N Bose ARSA

Bose himself may have been responsible for the photography however he is known to have had his own portrait taken by the Edinburgh-based commercial…

Bose himself may have been responsible for the photography however he is known to have had his own portrait taken by the Edinburgh-based commercial photographer Drummond Young whilst another Edinburgh photographer Francis Caird Inglis recorded other of Bose's sculptural works and he may have engaged either of them to record this piece.

The piece depicts an athletically-built clean-shaven young man and his greyhound dog, being Bose's bronze group 'Athlete and Hound' which he exhibited at the RSA Annual Exhibition in 1923 (cat.35).

Typical of Bose's work it reveals the influence of the work of Auguste Rodin HRSA in conveying a sense of continuous movement.

Bose would have been able to see Rodin's works first hand at the RSA Annual Exhibitions and when he visited Paris in 1911 actually met the great French sculptor who took an interest in his work.