Modern & Post-War British Art

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Property from an Important American Collection

KENNETH ARMITAGE, R.A. | FIGURE LYING ON ITS SIDE (VERSION 5)

Auction Closed

November 20, 12:36 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

KENNETH ARMITAGE, R.A.

1916-2002

FIGURE LYING ON ITS SIDE (VERSION 5)


stamped with initials and dated 1957

bronze

length: 85cm.; 33½in.

Conceived in 1957, the present work is from the edition of probably 4.

Artcurial, Paris, where acquired by Jack and Ruth Wexler, July 1985

Gifted by the above to the present owners in 1995

Roland Penrose, Kenneth Armitage: Artists of our Time Vol.VIII, Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil, Switzerland, 1960, cat. no.19, illustrated (another cast);

Charles Spencer, Kenneth Armitage, Academy Editions, London, 1973, illustrated p.9 (another cast);

Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, cat. no.KA67, illustrated p.47 (another cast);

James Scott, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, cat. no.68, illustrated p.110 (another cast).