Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
Ground Breaking: Works from the Collection of Joseph & Blanche Blank
KENNETH ARMITAGE, R.A.
MOON FIGURE
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November 17, 02:24 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Ground Breaking: Works from the Collection of Joseph & Blanche Blank
KENNETH ARMITAGE, R.A.
1916 - 2002
MOON FIGURE
signed KA, dated 75 and stamped with the foundry mark H. Noack Berlin (on the underside of the base)
bronze
height: 84cm.; 33in.
width: 70cm.; 27½in.
Conceived in 1948 and cast in 1975 by H. Noack Berlin, the present work is from the edition of 6.
We are grateful to James Scott for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Acquired by Joseph and Blanche Blank by 1985
Norbert Lynton, Kenneth Armitage, Methuen, London, 1962, illustrated n.p. (another cast)
Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, no. KA4, illustrated p. 24 (another cast)
James Scott and Claudia Milburn, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, no. 3, illustrated p. 90 (another cast)
Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, no. KA4, illustrated p. 24 (another cast)
James Scott and Claudia Milburn, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, no. 3, illustrated p. 90 (another cast)