Kenneth Armitage

Cambridge, Arts Council Gallery (and tour to Bolton, Liverpool, Nottingham, Southampton and Cardiff), The Gregory Fellows, February 1964, no.19, illustrated p.6 (another cast);
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, In Our View, May-June 1967, no.8, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (another cast);
Norwich, Castle Museum, (and tour to Bolton, Oldham, Kettering, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Llanelli, Leeds and Hull), Kenneth Armitage, December 1972-January 1973, no.8 (another cast);
London, The Fine Art Society, Austerity to Affluence: British Art & Design 1945-1962, October-November 1997, no.P18, illustrated p.118 (another cast);
London, Jonathan Clark, Kenneth Armitage: 60 Years of Sculpture and Drawing, March-April 2001, no.11, illustrated (another cast).

Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.) in association with the artist, Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, KA83, illustrated p.42 (larger version).

There is some light surface dirt to the crevices and some tiny white specks of paint to the surface but otherwise in good overall condition.
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Conceived in 1957 and cast in an edition of 6, this piece is the maquette for the large bronze in the Berlin Opera House which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale of 1958.