Property from an Important London Private Collection
Kenneth Armitage, R.A.
Seated Woman with Square Head (Version B)
Auction Closed
November 23, 03:04 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important London Private Collection
Kenneth Armitage, R.A.
1916 - 2002
Seated Woman with Square Head (Version B)
stamped with Susse Fondeur Paris foundry stamp (on the reverse of the base)
bronze
height: 59cm.; 23¼in.
width: 30cm.; 11¾in.
Conceived in 1955 and cast by Susse Fondeur Paris in 1957, the present work is from the edition of 6, including one cast in the Tate Collection, London.
We are grateful to James Scott for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Joe Wolpe, Cape Town, by circa 1991
Private Collection, London
Offer Waterman & Co., London, where acquired by the present owner, January 2009
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Recent Sculpture by Kenneth Armitage, October – November 1957, no. 12 (another cast)
Venice, British Pavilion, Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, June – October 1958, no. 71 (another cast)
Antwerp, 5e Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheimpark, May – September 1959 (another cast)
Kassel, Documenta, July – October 1959 (another cast)
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings Based on the XXIX Venice Biennale of 1958, July – August 1959, no. 24 (another cast)
Roland Penrose, Kenneth Armitage, Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil, 1960, illustrated plates 12 and 16
Norbert Lynton, Kenneth Armitage, Methuen, London, 1962, n.p.
Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, illustrated p.46
Kenneth Armitage Sculptor: A Centenary Celebration, Sansom & Company, 2016, illustrated pl.55, p.82 (Tate cast)
James Scott and Claudia Milburn, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, no. 58C
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