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Kenneth Armitage, R.A.

Seated Group

Auction Closed

June 10, 02:51 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Kenneth Armitage

1916 - 2002

Seated Group


bronze

height (including integral base): 81cm.; 32in.

Conceived in 1952-54, the present cast is from the edition of 6.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Sale, Sotheby's London, 24 October 2005, lot 107, where acquired by the present owner

Roland Penrose, Kenneth Armitage: Artists of our Time, vol. VII, Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil, Switzerland, 1960, illustrated pl. 8 (this cast)

Charles Spencer, Kenneth Armitage: Alecto Monographs 1, Academy Editions, London, 1973, illustrated p. 6 (another cast)

Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, KA46, illustrated (another cast)

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, British Paintings and Sculpture, 23 September - 31 October 1954 (another cast)

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Kenneth Armitage, July - August 1959, no. 11, illustrated in the exh. cat. pl. VI (another cast)

Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Recent British Sculpture, British Council Tour, 1961-64, no. 6, illustrated in the exh. cat., with tour to Auckland City Art Gallery and the State Galleries of Australia (another cast)

Darmstadt, Germany, Zeugnisse der Angst in der Modernen Kunst, June - September 1963 (another cast)