Joyce (James).- Bronze of James Joyce's Death Mask, one of 12 unnumbered bronzes cast by Lunts of Birmingham, plinth inscribed "James Joyce 1882-1941", 450 x 140 x 150mm, [Birmingham], [2017].

⁂ The sculptor Paul Speck was commissioned to take a death mask from Joyce after he died in Zurich on 13 January 1941. The multiple later casts in plaster and bronze can all be traced back to three contemporary plaster casts that were produced by Speck. This cast was taken from a bronze cast made in 2000, which was itself made from one of six plaster casts produced in the early 1950s by the sculptor Victor Dallo under Speck's supervision, and which at one point had belonged to the film director John Huston.