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Kenneth Armitage, R.A.

Playful Figure

Lot Closed

November 23, 04:19 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Kenneth Armitage, R.A.

1916 - 2002

Playful Figure


signed with initials, numbered 6/9 and stamped (to the reverse)

bronze

height (excluding base): 23.5cm.; 9¼in.

width (excluding base): 18.5cm.; 7¼in.; depth (excluding base): 10.5cm.; 4in.

Conceived in 1961, the present work was cast by the Morris Singer Foundry and is number 6 from the edition of 9.


We are grateful to James Scott for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Private Collection, U.S.A, from where acquired by present owners
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Kenneth Armitage, May 1962, no. 14, illustrated (another cast)
Bristol, Arnolfini Gallery, Kenneth Armitage, June 1965 (another cast)
Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, Lund Humphries, London, no. KA99, illustrated p. 144 (another cast)