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Lot 151
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Barry Flanagan

Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
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Description

  • Barry Flanagan
  • Juggler
  • stamped with the artist's monogram and foundry mark AB London, numbered 7/8, and inscribed Joseph He Cried
  • bronze
  • 222 by 96 by 67cm., 87 1/2 by 37 3/4 by 26 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1994, this work is number 7 from an edition of 8, plus 3 artist’s proofs.

Provenance

Richard Gray Gallery, New York  
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Park Avenue, 54th-59th Street, Barry Flanagan on Park Avenue, 1995-96
Chicago, Grant Park, Barry Flanagan in Grant Park, Chicago, 1996
Iowa City, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Barry Flanagan: Recent Sculptures, 1995

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965-2005, 2006, pp. 115, 200 and 212, illustration of other examples in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is deeper and richer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Upon close inspection, there are a few scattered media accretions to the base and some light tarnishing towards the edges. There are a small number of isolated spots of oxidisation. Some light dust fibers have accumulated in the crevises of the sculpture.
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Catalogue Note

“I find that the hare is a rich and expressive form that can carry the conventions of the cartoon and the attributes of the human into the animal world. So I use the hare as a surrogate or as a vehicle to entertain in a way.” The artist in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, in Exhibition Catalogue, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art; City Art Gallery, Barry Flanagan: Sculptures 1965-2005, 2006, p. 65