Kenneth Armitage

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Kenneth Armitage CBE, RA
The Bed (Small Model A)
signed with initials
bronze with a mid-brown patina
length 22cm., 8 1/2 in.

Exhibited

London, Marlborough New London Gallery, Kenneth Armitage, April 1965, no.38, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (another cast).

Literature

Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, HMF/Lund Humphries, London 1997, KA150, p.146.

Catalogue Note

Conceived and cast in 1965 and again in 1976, the present work is probably the single example of the later casting. Together with The Bed (Small Model B) this is one of two maquettes produced for the large sculpture The Bed (1965, KA149) which only exists in fibreglass.