The Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu created a series of wooden sculptures for the London headquarters of the Daily Mirror in 1961.
The sculptures were commissioned by the Daily Mirror to be installed in the forecourt of their new headquarters at Holborn Circus, into which they moved in 1961.
The statues were featured on page 3 of the Daily Mirror on 6 September 1961 in an article titled "When News Takes Wings".
[1] Enwonwu's biographer, Sylvester Ogbechie, described the series as having been unveiled to "unanimous praise" upon their installation.
[1] The aesthetic stance of the figures is reminiscent of the wooden carving and sculptural traditions of the Igbo people.