Hypnos
Created by James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
Date: 1900
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: head
Material: metal - bronze
Technique: cast
Description: A winged bronze female head with a 'torn' socle.
Notes: The Greek god of Sleep, Hypnos is normally depicted as a young man with wings attached to his head. According to Greek mythology, he put men to sleep by touching them with his wand or by fanning them with his dark wings. Macgillivray's choice of a female Hypnos reflects the fin de siècle fashion for the 'femme fatale'. The size of the edition is not known.
Makers, Owners and Exhibitors
Owned by Aberdeen Art Gallery
1969
Accession number: ABDAG004674. Acquired in
Sources
Aberdeen Art Galleries: the Collections
http://www.aagm.co.uk/theCollections/objects/object/Hypnos (accessed 2 September 2010)
Citing this record
'Hypnos', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=ann_1283468703, accessed 08 Jun 2023]
