Ecstasy (Gill sculpture)

Gill found creative links between sex and his Catholic spirituality: a drawing for this work was entitled Christ and the Church.

From Gill's diary, it seems that he was working on the sculpture from around August 1910 and completed by February 1911.

Correspondence between Gill and Roger Fry connected the work with two other reliefs, A Crucifix (also in the Tate) and A Roland for an Oliver (also known as Her, held by the University of Hull).

It bears a monogram on the right edge, of an eye on a hand, a symbol used by Gill in his early carvings.

Warren also owned a marble replica of Rodin's The Kiss that he had commissioned from the original artist.