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BARRY FLANAGAN | Acrobats

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Description

  • Barry Flanagan
  • Acrobats
  • incised with the artist’s monogram, cast date -/12, number 5/5 and stamped with foundry mark on the base 
  • bronze
  • 174 ¼ by 65 by 49 in. 442.6 by 165.1 by 124.5 cm.
  • Conceived in 1997, this work was cast in 2012 and is number 5 from an edition of 5, plus 1 artist’s cast.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan, September - October 1998, no. 8, illustrated in color (edition 2/5) Kellsborough, Kells Priory, Sculpture at Kells, August 1999, no. 34, illustrated (edition 3/5)

Tate Liverpool, Barry Flanagan, July - October 2000 (edition 3/5)

Lange Voorhout/The Hague Sculpture, Europe's Image, Myth and Reality, June - September 2002, p. 21, illustrated in color (edition 3/5)

Narborough, Narborough Hall, Barry Flanagan at Narborough, August - September 2003 (edition 3/5)

New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, February - March 2004 (edition 1/5)

Schwäbisch Hall, Kunsthalle Würth, Henry Moore: Epoche und Echo. English Sculpture in the 20th Century, June - October 2005, p. 213, illustrated in color (edition 3/5)

Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965 - 2005, June - September 2006, p. 216, illustrated in color (edition 4/5)

Coventry, University of Warwick Arts Centre, Follow that Hare, September 2018 - August 2019 (the present work) 

Literature

Waddington Galleries, eds., Barry Flanagan: Seeing Round Corners, London 2001, no. 101, p. 99, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown) Clare Preston, eds., Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1966 - 2009, London 2017, p. 104, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown)