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Lot 157
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Sir Anthony Caro

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Table Piece CCCCXXIII
  • steel and cast iron varnished
  • 78.7 by 122 by 58.4cm.; 31 by 48 by 23in.
  • Executed in 1977-79.

Provenance

André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1990

Literature

Dieter Blume, Ed., Anthony Caro Catalogue Raisonné Vol. II: Table and Related Sculptures 1979-80, Miscellaneous Sculptures 1974-1980, Bronze Sculptures 1976-1980, Cologne 1981, p. 17 & p. 119, no. 472, illustrated

Catalogue Note

"Caro's table sculptures mark the emergence of a sense of scale for which there is no precedent in earlier sculpture. And although it seems clear that our conviction on this score relates intimately to the fact that in everyday life smallish objects such as one would be inclined to grasp and handle tend to be found on tables - within easy reach - rather than on the ground, it is also true that we encounter nothing quite like the abstract smallness of Caro's table sculptures in our ordinary experience of the world. From this point of view, an ontological one, the table sculptures are endlessly fascinating."

Michael Fried, catalogue introduction, Anthony Caro's Table Sculptures, 1977