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November 20, 12:36 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
KENNETH ARMITAGE, R.A.
1916-2002
FIGURE LYING ON ITS SIDE (VERSION 5)
stamped with initials and dated 1957
bronze
length: 85cm.; 33½in.
Conceived in 1957, the present work is from the edition of proba🎉bly 𝓡4.
Artcurial, Paris, where acquired by Jack and Ruth W꧟exler, July 1985
Gifted by the above to the present owners in 199🃏5
Roland Penrose, Kenneth Armitage: Artists of our Time Vol.VIII, Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil, Switzerland, 19♌60, cat. no.19, illustrated (another cast);
Charles Spencer, Kenneth Armitage, Ac♐ademy Ed📖itions, London, 1973, illustrated p.9 (another cast);
Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in associa🍒tion with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, cat. no.KA67, illustrℱated p.47 (another cast);
James Scott, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, cat. no.68, illustrওated൲ p.110 (another cast).
São Paulo, São Paulo Bienal, Ten Young British Sculptors, 1957 (British Council cast), with tour to Chile,✅ Ur𓃲aguay, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Peru;
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., Critic's Choice 1958 - David Sylvester, 1st - 26th July 1958, cat. no.29, illust🤪rated p.23 (ano𒁏ther cast);
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Kenneth Armitage & William Scott, 3rd - 30th June 1959, cat. no.20, illustrat𒈔ed (another ca༒st);
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Kenneth Armitage, J🐬uly - August 1959, cat. no.32, ill🌺ustrated pl.xiv (another cast);
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Recent British Sculpture, April 1961, cat. no.8, illustrated (British Council cast), with tour to Canada, New Zealand, Au🅷stralia andꦬ Hong Kong;
London, Tate, 54-64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 22nd April - 28th June 1964, cat. n💦o.204, illustrated (Artist's cast);
New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, Nine Living British Sculptors, 17th No♏vember - 1st December 1965 (British Council cast), with tour to India;
United Arab Emirates, Eight British Sculptors,🌠 1st January - 12th July 1969 (British Council 🤡cast), with tour to Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon;
Belfast, Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, British Sculpture 1952-62, 1st🤪 May - 30th June 1967 (British Council cast), with tour to Norway, France, Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon;
Norwich, Castle Museum, Kenneth Armitage, 16th December 1972 - 14th January 1973, cat. no.11, illustrated (Artist's cast), with tour to Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton; Art Gallery, Oldham; Art Gallery, Ket♐tering; Victoria Street Gallery, Nottingham; Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth; City Art Gallery, Plymouth; Museum and Art Gallery, Llanelli; City Art Gallery, Leeds; and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull;
Tenerife, British Council Office, International Sculpture Exhibition, 1974 (British Council cast);
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, 11th September 1981 - 24th January 1982, illustrated p.133 (another cast🐠);
Paris, Artcurial, Kenneth Armitage, Sculptures et Dessins, 1948-1984, May - July 1985, ex. cat. (this cast);
Kiev, Ukrainian Museum of Fine Arts, For a Wider World, June 1990 (British Co📖uncil cast), with tour to Luxembourg, Bulgaria and Argentina;
Leeds, City Art Galleries, Herbert Read: A British Vision of World Art, 25th November 1993 - 5th February 1994, cat. no.10, illustrat𓃲ed p.153 ꦚ(British Council cast);
Mannheim, Kunsthalle, Menschenbilder Figur in Zeiten der Abstraktion, October 1998 (British Council cast):
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties, 31st Ja🐼nuary - 14th April 2002, cat. no.4, illustrated p.66 (another cast);
Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum, Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst Im 20. Jahrhundert, 14th September 2002 - 19th January♏ 200ꦰ3 (British Council cast), with tour to Les Abattoirs, Toulouse;
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Fall Out: War and Conflict in the British Council Collection, 26th March - 30th May 2010 (British Council cast),ඣ with tour to Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury✃:
Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, Kenneth Armitage 1916-2002 Centenary Sculpture Exhibition, 10th September - 27th November 2016 (British Council cast), with tour to The Stanley & Audrey Bu♍rton Gallery, The University♓ Library, Leeds.