Christopher Stone

The second reason, especially for this piece is that the client who initially commissioned him had no imagination of what the finished article would be like, so in fact he got a full-size Maquette that left no reason for doubt, unfortunately this client died before he completed the deal, he had paid for the Maquette, and was happy with the result, his family left it to me in his memory, so its mine and waiting for things to improve slightly before he goes to Dublin.

The foundries original quote for bronze, and my work would have made a retail price of about 25000 euros for the first copy, and a reduction of about 15% for editions up to eight, although this was two years ago.

Mr Majestic stands 210cm tall, and is built without a base (the one you see in the photo is for my use only) the idea is that all the supports would be under ground, what you eventually would see is the horse standing, or rearing directly from the ground, a base can be added if more height, or a different location is desired.

My idea for him came from my wanting to mix a bit of realism with a lot of abstraction, I wanted to portray a friendly type of animal, but rearing, kind of a warning "I am here, be careful" but without terror.

The title came from, I believe a terrible Charles Bronson film from the Seventies.