Franta Belsky
Franta Belsky | |
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Photo of sculptor Franta Belsky with his bust of Queen Elizabeth II (Don Honeyman, 1981) | |
| Born | František Bělský 6 April 1921 |
| Died | 5 July 2000 (aged 79) Abingdon-on-Thames, England |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Movement | Modern sculpture, Modernism |
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František Bělský (as artist used the name Franta Belsky; in Czech Franta Bělský, 6 April 1921 – 5 July 2000) was a Czech-British sculptor.
He was known for large-scale abstract works of public art as well as more iconographic statues and busts of noted 20th-century figures such as Winston Churchill and members of the British Royal Family.