SIR ANTHONY CARO, O.M., R.A. | Cigarette Smoker 1 (Lighting a Cigarette)

Sale, Christie's South Kensington, 4th December 2002, lot 500, where acquired by the present owners

Venice, Venice Biennale, Three Young British Artists, 1958, (another cast);
Arnhem, Sonsbeek Park, Sonsbeek '58, 15^th June – 15^th September 1958, (another cast);
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, 5^th December 1958 – 8^th February 1959 (another cast);
London, Marlborough New London Gallery, Ten Sculptors, 1961, (another cast);
Chicago, Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Art 1986 Chicago, 1986, (another cast);
London, New Art Centre, British Sculpture 1950-1965, 22^nd May – 5^th July 1986, illustrated p.7 (another cast);
Rome, Trajan Markets, Anthony Caro, 1992 (details untraced), (another cast);
London, Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery, Anthony Caro: Sculptures Through Five Decades, 1955-1994, 8^th March – 7^th May 1994, illustrated p.12 (another cast), with tour to Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf;
Angers, Musée de Baux-Arts, Anthony Caro, 21^st June – 26^th October 1996 (another cast);
London, Barbican, Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties Barbican, 31^st January – 14^th April 2002 (another cast);
London, Tate, Anthony Caro, 26^th January – 17^th April 2005 (another cast);
Paris, Musée Rodin, L'Invention de l'Oeuvre: Rodin et les Ambassadeurs, 6th May – 4^th September 2011, illustrated p.105 (another cast);
Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Caro in Yorkshire, 18^th July – 1^st November 2015 (another cast).

Dieter Blume, Anthony Caro Catalogue Raisonné, Vol.IV, Verlag Galerie Wentzel, Köln, 1981, cat. no.A79, illustrated pp.21 and 52 (another cast).
Diane Waldman, Anthony Caro, Abbeville Press, New York, 1982;
Peter Fuller, ‘Anthony Caro Talks About Henry Moore’, Modern Painters, Vol.I/3, Autumn 1988, pp.6-13;
John McEwen, ‘Tacking to the Windward of Fashion’, Sunday Telegraph, 20^th March 1994;
William Feaver, ‘Warriors in the Orangery’, The Observer, 29^th March 1994;
Waldemar Januszczak, ‘New Ground for Old Battles’, Sunday Times, 27^th March 1994, pp.28, 29;
Bryan Robertson, ‘The World's Last Night’, Modern Painters, vol.XII/3, Autumn 1999, pp.60-65;
Ian Barker, Anthony Caro: Quest for the New Sculpture, Lund Humphries, London, 2004, pp.74, 77, 79, illustrated p.75 (another cast);
‘A Sculptor Who Abandoned the Representation of Things Has Come Back to It’, The Economist, 27^th January 2005;
Andrew Graham-Dixon, ‘Monumental Restless Energy’, Sunday Telegraph, 30^th January 2005, p.5;
Gerald Isaaman, ‘Sir Anthony's Sculptures Are Simply Tate of the Art’, Camden New Journal, 10^th Feb 2005, p.3;
‘Caro’s Hell’, Hyperstition, February 2005;
Paul Moorhouse, Interpreting Caro, Tate Publishing, London, 2005, pp.5-46, illustrated p.9 (another cast);
Julius Bryant, Anthony Caro: The Figurative and Narrative Sculptures, Lund Humphries, London, 2009, p.22, illustrated p.50 (another cast).

The sculpture appears sound. The surface is very uneven, in keeping with the Artist's working methods. There is surface dirt, matter and remnants of casting residue, and a few flecks of oxidisation to these areas. There is possible minor rubbing to raised areas in places. This excepting, the work appears in very good overall condition. The work is adhered to a stone base. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
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'I was looking a lot at that time at things like photos from Italian magazines taken on the flash of a moment e.g. someone lighting a cigarette. My subject matter often came from news flashes and these ones of smoking are very much to do with that sort of thing' (Anthony Caro in conversation with Diana Eichler for 1985 thesis)

We are grateful to Anthony Caro's studio for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.