KENNETH ARMITAGE, R.A. | SEATED WOMAN WITH SQUARE HEAD (VERSION A)
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November 20, 12:36 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 GBP
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KENNETH ARMITAGE, R.A.
1916-2002
SEATED WOMAN WITH SQUARE HEAD (VERSION A)
signed with initials, dated 1955/84 and numbered 2/6
bronze
height (including Artist's base): 59.5cm.; 23½in.
Conceived in 1955 and cast in 1984/85, the present work is number 2 from the edition of 6.
Joe Wolpe, Cape Town, where acquired by the present owner, circa 1991
Norwich, Castle Museum, Kenneth Armitage, 16th December 1972 - 14th January 1973, cat. no.5 (Artist's cast), with tour to Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton; Art Gallery, Oldham; Art Gallery, Kettering; Victoria Street Gallery, Nottingham; Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth; City Art Gallery, Plymouth; Museum and Art Gallery, Llanelli; City Art Gallery, Leeds; and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull;
Paris, Artcurial, Kenneth Armitage, Sculptures et Dessins 1948-1984, May - July 1985, cat. no.7 (another cast);
London, Jonathan Clark & Co., Kenneth Armitage, Sculptures, Maquettes, Drawings, 2005, cat. no.11, illustrated (plaster cast).
Norbert Lynton, Kenneth Armitage, Methuen, London, 1962, illustrated (another cast);
Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, cat. no.KA54, illustrated p.46 (another cast);
Vibeke Petersen (ed.), Dresing Collection, The Merla Art Foundation, Denmark, 2008, pp.13, 26, illustrated (another cast);
James Scott, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, cat. no.58B, illustrated p.40 (another cast).