Notes by Henghes written on the completion of this work:
Venus, finished May 1946 after almost 3 1/2 months work is so far the largest stonecarving I have done. I stole the block which was lying in a garage by claiming to the tenant that it was mine. It is lovely, gray crystalline marble. This and the bust done a year ago are the beginning of a new humanism in my work. I have given up abstraction for good now in this and through venus I have satisfied myself of the promise of new life in this retour a l'aube which I will make the tenor of the future. The work has exhausted me. I feel tired and indifferent because of the let up of nervous strain the work on this statue has been. It now stands calm and poised in my studio in a silence of its own and I cannot yet judge this venus.

A serpentine fish carved in wood. an unusual piece for Henghes - Exhibited at Royal Society of British Artists Suffolk Street show in December 1949

The Girl is thought to be a model at the Royal College of Art where Henghes was lecturing at the time.

A note by Henghes on this work written in 1950:
Madonna, my largest stonecarving so far, occupied me about 9 months. Made for St Mary le Park Church Albert Bridge Rd. Battersea. Stone paid for by Stefan Hopkinson and Brian Dupre the Vicar, cost £75.- My work given as a gift. Received a great deal of publicity due to silly objections raised by 3 women who called it blasphemous, obscene etc. Exhibited Antwerp Open Aire Exhibition 1950. To be exhibited Battersea Park Open Air Exhib. 1951 and is to go into the Church at the end of that exhibition.

Modelled in clay at Royal College or Art in 1.5 months. Cast in quick dry aluminous concrete (quartz sand 2.5 to 1 to .5 water) hollow. Shown at the Festival of Britain 1951. Now at Londons' Camden School for Girls.

Metal bars are inset in stone to give the effect of an instrument.