Greyhound
Description
Provenance
The greyhound sculpture was derived from Troubetzkoy’s 1907 statuette of the aesthete Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (Musée d’Orsay, Paris). It is not known when Shaw acquired the piece. The greyhound appears in a photograph Shaw took of F.E. Loewenstein in 1945 at Shaw’s Corner, where he stands holding the sculpture.
The Shaw Collection. The house and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by George Bernard Shaw in 1950, together with Shaw's photographic archive.