A Conversation With Oscar Wilde
A reclining green sculpture near Charing Cross where Oscar Wilde rises from a coffin-like bench, cigarette in hand, ready to chat.
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On a busy corner by St Martin-in-the-Fields, Oscar Wilde lounges in green granite and bronze, his head and cigarette-holding hand emerging from a long coffin-shaped bench so that he seems to be rising for one last bit of conversation. The work, unveiled in 1998, is titled A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, and it invites you to sit down beside him.
Wilde's witty line, that we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars, is carved nearby. It is free, warm and a little subversive, a fittingly playful tribute to London's great wit, once disgraced and imprisoned, now affectionately memorialised in the heart of the city.
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