Lot 233
  • 233

Barry Flanagan

Estimate
450,000 - 650,000 USD
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Description

  • Barry Flanagan
  • Six Foot Leaping Hare on Steel Pyramid 
  • bronze and steel 
  • 94 by 73 1/4 by 26 in. 238.8 by 186.1 by 66 cm.
  • Executed in 1990, this work is number 1 from an edition of 8 plus 3 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1996

Exhibited

Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, Animalia: Stellvertreter. Tierbilder in der zeitgenossischen Kunst, 1990 
London, Business Design Centre, Waddington Galleries, Art ’92, 1992
Wiltshire, New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Garden, 1992 
Somerset, Millfield School, Millfield British 20th Century Sculpture Exhibition, 1992, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Names of the Hare: Large Bronzes by Barry Flanagan: 1983-1990, 1992 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Barry Flanagan, 1992 (another example exhibited)
London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan, 1994, cat. no. 4, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, Park Avenue, 54th-59th Street, Barry Flanagan on Park Avenue, 1995 
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Barry Flanagan, 1995, cat. no. 4, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Chicago, Grant Park, Barry Flanagan in Grant Park, Chicago, 1996 
Milan, Galleria Karsten Greve, Barry Flanagan: Scultura, 1996 
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture, 2004, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Cambridge, Jesus College, Sculpture in the Close: Remembering Flanagan, 2011 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Exh. Cat., New York, PaceWildenstein, Barry Flanagan: Recent Sculpture, 1994, p.6, illustrated in color
Susannah Lawson, Ed., The 20th Century Art Book, London 1996, p. 141, illustrated 
Exh. Cat., London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan, 2003, illustrated in color, p. 21 
Exh. Cat., Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965-2005, 2006, cat. no. 201 and 210, illustrated 
Lynne Green, Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Landscape for Art, Wakefield 2008, illustrated in color, p. 121

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There are a few scattered drip accretions on the hare form and some scattered drip accretions, minor surface abrasions and evidence of light wear to the base, all to be expected of a work installed in an outdoors environment.
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Catalogue Note

"They are highly respected works, with dynamic energy and jubilant spirit. Barry Flanagan, the renowned Welsh sculptor, created his jovial jackrabbit to celebrate human whimsy — that spontaneous emotion we share with animalkind."

Raymond Ward Bissell, Shared Space: the Joseph M. Cohen Collection, Kansas City 2010, p. 60