The final room of the recent Historic England Exhibition "Out There - Post War Public Art" at Somerset House ended with a somewhat mournful list of notable public sculpture that has, to date, been "Sold, Lost, Destroyed or Stolen". This was a rather down-beat end to a show that had started, in the first gallery, with the vigour, the sheer optimism and idealism of The Festival of Britain in 1951. However, some sculpture that had been created in the intervening years was on the adjacent "Saved" list, and one of them (or at least part of it), originally installed in Falmouth - salvaged at the eleventh hour - was on display in the lobby. After the show closed in April 2016 we acquired it and it is now on display at LASSCO Three Pigeons. It is absolutely huge.
 
Paul Mount (1922-2009) was at the vanguard of British sculpture in Post War years - he is referred to alongside names as Hepworth and Moore. His abstracted figurative works, often created from whips of steel, now attract large sums at auction. In his later career he was interested in relief sculpture, articulating surfaces, modular repetition and mass production - themes prevalent in the 1970's with the likes of Carl Andre. He spent many years living in Nigeria and had created a 200m long frieze for the Swiss Embassy in Lagos. On moving to Falmouth, Cornwall, where he lived for the rest of his years, he took the opportunity to create another vast relief - along the side of a supermarket.
 
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