Three works ‘Elegy for Alan Rawsthorne’

Portrait of Alan Rawsthorne

Alan Rawsthorne Elegy I

100x60cm
Plaster for bronze
Bronze I is in a private collection

Having made a portrait of Rawsthorne in 1964 (in the National Portrait Gallery), Roy, who was deeply affected by Rawsthorne’s death in 1971, made a series of works entitled Elegy.

Portrait of Alan Rawsthorne in bronze

Alan Rawsthorne Elegy II

43x24cm
High relief
Bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

Alan Rawsthorne portrait in bronze

Alan Rawsthorne Elegy III

33x24cm
High relief
Bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

Low and high relief figures

Reclining figure in plaster

Reclining figure

100x130cm
Low relief
Plaster for bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

The Cambridge studio was smaller with less light than Essex. Working with clay over large armatures became almost impossible. Modelling on board in both high and low relief solved this problem.

'Summer Mary' relief in bronze

Summer Mary

55x80cm
Relief
Bronze I
Roy Noakes Collection

'Winter Mary' relief in bronze

Winter Mary

55x80cm
Relief
Bronze
Private Collection

'Gingo Mary' Relief in resin

Gingo Mary

100x100cm
Low relief
Resin
Roy Noakes Collection

Figure enveloped in waves, relief in bronze

Figure enveloped in waves

80x40cm
High relief
Bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

Figure enveloped in waves II, relief in bronze

Figure enveloped in waves

110x40cm
High relief
Bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

Reclining figure in bronze

Reclining figure

110x35cm
Bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

A drawing in black chalk on layout paper

Drawing

53x30cm
Black chalk on layout paper
Roy Noakes Collection

Noakes rarely drew preparatory sketches but drew almost as a memory of the sculpture.

A colourful chalk drawing of a 'Figure Enveloped'

Drawing ‘Figure enveloped’

53x30cm
Coloured chalk on layout paper

Freestanding figures

Three figurative sculptures placed in a row

Three Figures in reverse order

Figure I, 50x30cm, Bronze

Figure II, 36x40cm, Plaster for Bronze

Figure III, 36x40cm, Plaster for bronze

All in Roy Noakes Collection

A figurative sculpture in plaster

Figure

36x40cm
Plaster for bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

A figurative sculpture in resin

Figure

46x47cm
Resin
Roy Noakes Collection

A figurative relief in bronze

Anna

48x48x12cm
High relief
Bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

A portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne in bronze

Isabel

38x28cm
Bronze
All copies are in the Roy Noakes Collection

This work was made in 1975 before a portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne was commissioned in 1984. The work has been variously cast in plaster and wax.

A bronze portrait of Kirk Huffman

Kirk Huffman

30x30x18cm
Bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

Kirk Huffman is an Anthropologist who Roy met and befriended in the 1970s.

A bronze portrait of Kirk Huffman

Kirk Huffman

30x30x18cm
Bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

Kirk Huffman is an Anthropologist who Roy met and befriended in the 1970s.

'Josephine' portrait in bronze

Josephine

35x33cm
Bronze
Roy Noakes Collection

'Biddy' Portrait in bronze

Biddy

18x19cm
Bronze II
Roy Noakes Collection

Bronze I is in the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery Collection