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BARRY FLANAGAN | Empire State with Bowler, Mirrored

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Description

  • Barry Flanagan
  • Empire State with Bowler, Mirrored
  • incised with the artist’s monogram, number 5/8 and stamped with AB Fine Art Foundry foundry mark on each base
  • bronze, in 2 parts
  • i. 90 ½ by 17 ¾ by 17 ¼ in. 230 by 45 by 44 cm. ii. 90 ½ by 17 ¼ by 20 ⅛ in. 230 by 44 by 51 cm.
  • Executed in 1997, this work is number 5 from an edition of 8, plus 2 artist’s casts.

Provenance

Waddington Galleries, London (acquired directly from the artist) Arij Gasiunasen Fine Art, Palm Beach

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture, April - May 1998, pp. 8-9, illustrated (edition 3/8) Basel, Galerie von Bartha, Barry Flanagan: Sculptures and Ceramics, May - June 1998 (edition 4/8)

Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Barry Flanagan: New Sculpture, May - July 1998 (edition 2/8)

London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan, September - October 1998, no. 9, illustrated in color (edition 3/8)

Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Nice, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture and Drawing, May 2002 - May 2003, no. 24, p. 99, illustrated in color (edition 7/8)

Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965-2005, June - September 2006, p. 125, illustrated in color (image reversed) (edition 7/8) 

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2008, June - August 2008 (edition 7/8)

London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan: Works 1966-2008, March - April 2010, no. 27, p. 77, illustrated in color (the present work)

Derbyshire, Chatsworth House, Beyond Limits, September - October 2012, illustrated in color (the present work)

London, Waddington Custot Galleries, Two Pataphysicians: Flanagan-Miró, October - November 2014, no. 25, p. 67, illustrated in color (the present work)

Literature

Waddington Galleries, British Art: A selection from Waddington Galleries, London, 1997, no. 8, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown) Clare Preston, eds., Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1966 - 2009, London, 2017, no. 109, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown)