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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900)
was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete.

Oscar Wilde Statue by Maggi Hambling

On November 30, 1998,
the statue by Maggi Hambling was at last unveiled
in Adelaide Street, near Trafalgar Square

the coffin is also a bench

the bronze cigarette is often stolen!
it was gone this week

It is the only sculpture in England of Oscar Wilde




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