British · b. 1937
British pop artist who emerged from the Royal College of Art in the early 1960s alongside David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj. His paintings, prints and sculptures centre on the figure and eroticism, most famously the fibreglass furniture sculptures Hatstand, Table and Chair (1969). He was elected a Royal Academician in 1986, and the Royal Academy staged his retrospective in 2014.
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Photo by Matt Brown, CC BY 4.0
2019 · The Tide, Greenwich Peninsula, London
An eight-metre red steel sculpture by pop artist Allen Jones, commissioned for The Tide and designed to be seen from the elevated walkway as well as from street level. Its sweeping curved planes resolve into a profile face with windswept hair.
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