Lot 129
  • 129

Kenneth Armitage

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Kenneth Armitage CBE, RA
  • figure on its back
  • bronze
  • height: 28.5; 11ΒΌ; width: 56cm.; 22in.; breadth: 20.5cm.; 8in.

Provenance

Mayor Gallery, London whence purchased by the present owner

Exhibited

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Recent British Sculpture, April 1961, no.10 (another cast) with British Council Touring exhibition to various location in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Japan, 1961-1964;
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Kenneth Armitage/Lynn Chadwick, April - May 1960, no.22, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (another cast);
London, Malborough Fine Art, Kenneth Armitage, May 1962, no.3, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (another cast); 
Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Kenneth Armitage, June - July 1963, no.1 (another cast);
Norwich, Norwich Castle Museum, Kenneth Armitage, 16 December 1972-28 October 1973, no.13 (another cast), and toured by The Arts Council of Great Britain to Bolton, Oldham, Kettering, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Llanelli, Leeds and Hull; 
London, Jonathan Clark, Kenneth Armitage: 60 Years of Sculpture and Drawing, 21 March-12 April 2001, no.14, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (another cast).

Literature

Tamsyn Woollacombe (ed.) in association with the artist, Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, KA88.

Condition

Dirt has gathered in some of the crevices of the work but it is in good overall condition.
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Catalogue Note

Conceived in 1960 and cast in an edition of six.