
Property of a European Foundation
The Cricketer
Auction Closed
November 21, 05:49 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Barry Flanagan, R.A.
1941 - 2009
The Cricketer
bronze
height: 470cm.; 185in.
diameter (of the base): 181.5cm; 71½in.
signed with monogram, numbered 4/5 and inscribed A A London (on the base, to the left of the rear stump)
Conceived and cast in 1989, the present work is number 4 from the edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Casts.
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Zürich, where acquired by the present owner in April 2007
New York, The Pace Gallery, Barry Flanagan, 14 September - 13 October 1990 (another cast)
London, Barry Flanagan Waddington Galleries and The Economist Plaza, 1990 (another cast)
West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Names of the Hare: Large bronzes by Barry Flanagan: 1983-1990 , 18 June - 31 August 1992 (another cast)
Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Nantes), Barry Flanagan: Works 1966 to 1992, 1993 (another cast)
Madrid, Fundación la Caixa, Barry Flanagan, 4 December 1993 - 13 February 1994 (another cast)
New York, Barry Flanagan on Park Avenue 54th to 59th Street, 15 September 1995 - 15 January 1996 (another cast)
Chicago, Grant Park, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture in Grant Park, Chicago, 3 May - 30 September 1996 (another cast), with tour to Park Avenue, New York and O'Connell Street, Dublin
Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Barry Flanagan: New Sculpture, May - July 1998 (another cast)
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965-2005, 28 June - 24 September 2006 (another cast)
Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Imaginary Solutions, 3 February - 10 March 2023 (another cast)
IVéme Biennale de Sculpture Montecarlo 1993, Marisa del Rey Gallery Inc, New York, 1993, pp. 30-31
Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1996, illustrated p. 1 (another cast)
Catherine Ferbos-Nakov, Patrick Le Nouene, Jean de Loisy and Francoise Cohen, Effervescence. La Sculpture 'anglaise' dans les collections publiques francaises de 1969 á 1989, Musé des Beaux Arts, Angers, 2005, illustrated p. 93 (another cast)
Jo Melvin, Teresa Gleadowe, Mel Gooding, and Bruce McLean (eds.), Barry Flanagan, Waddington Custot, London, 2017, p. 133-135, illustrated (another cast)
Jo Melvin, Barry Flanagan The Hare is Metaphor, Paul Kasmin Gallery, London 2018, p. 106
Images: © The Estate of Barry Flanagan. All rights reserved 2023 /Bridgeman Images
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