Sculptured head of Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza
Date
ca.1970s
Sitter
Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza (1894 - 1984) , Physicist
Creator
Gabriella Bollobas (Hungarian) , Sculptor
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (sculpture): 328mm
width (sculpture): 209mm
depth (sculpture): 220mm
height (pedestal): 140mm
width (pedestal): 190mm
depth (pedestal): 190mm
width (sculpture): 209mm
depth (sculpture): 220mm
height (pedestal): 140mm
width (pedestal): 190mm
depth (pedestal): 190mm
Subject
Description
Head of Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza.
On a marble pedestal.
Plaque on pedestal inscribed ‘POTR KAPITZA FRS BY GABRIELLA BOLLOBAS PURCHASED 1993.’
Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza (1894-198 ), Russian physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1929.
On a marble pedestal.
Plaque on pedestal inscribed ‘POTR KAPITZA FRS BY GABRIELLA BOLLOBAS PURCHASED 1993.’
Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza (1894-198 ), Russian physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1929.
Object history
Purchased by the Royal Society in 1993. Resolution to make this purchase is recorded in the Royal Society Minutes of Council, 11 February 1993 [CMO/79]: 'That the action of the President, the Foreign Secretary and the Treasurer, in approving the purchase of a bust of Piotr Kapitza, F.R.S., by Gabriella Bollobas be confirmed'.
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