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Tony Wilding’s Motorbike

War Memorial to Italian Soldiers of WW1, Paolo Troubetzkoy. Source: By ©David Finn Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109834585

Angel, Madonna, Mother, Wife, Starlet, Actress: the one looking over all the dead, or the one Tony Wilding was about to marry. Child in arm. Barbed wire in the background. Troubetzkoy sculpted this angel, this monument to WWI. A decade earlier he sculpted Wilding hitting a forehand drive. “Physical Energy,” he called it. Women swooned […]