Kenneth Armitage, R.A.
Seated woman with Square Head (Version B)
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Kenneth Armitage, R.A.
1916 - 2002
Seated Woman with Square Head (Version B)
signed KA, numbered 6/6 and inscribed 1955/85 B (on the base)
bronze with a black patina
height (including integral base): 60 cm. 23⅝ in.
Conceived in 1955 and cast in 1985, this work is number 6 from an edition of 6.
Artcurial, Paris, 29 November 1986, where acquired by the family of the present owner, and thence by descent
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Recent Sculpture by Kenneth Armitage, October –November 1957, no. 12 illustrated, n.p. (another cast)
Venice, British Pavilion, Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, June – October 1958, no. 71 (another cast)
Antwerp, 5e Biennalevoor 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 (another cast)
Norbert Lynton (ed.), 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, no. KA54, illustrated p. 46 (another cast)
Kenneth Armitage Sculptor: A Centenary Celebration, Sansom & Company, 2016, illustrated pl. 55, p. 82 (Tate cast)
James Scott and Claudia Milburn (eds.), The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, no. 58C
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