Myths & Curiosities
Physical Energy
A bareback rider shields his eyes to scan the horizon — Watts's lifelong meditation on 'unsatisfied desire... the restless energy of mankind'. He worked on it for over twenty years and called it his greatest work; casts also stand in Cape Town and Harare.
- Subject
- An allegory of restless human ambition
- Sculptor
- George Frederic Watts
- Unveiled
- 1907
- Material
- Bronze
- Location
- Kensington Gardens
