Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
Property from an Important American Collection
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).