Modern & Post-War British Art Day Sale
Modern & Post-War British Art Day Sale
Lot Closed
July 30, 12:10 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
KENNETH ARMITAGE
1916-2002
CHILDREN BY THE SEA
bronze
height: 44.5cm.; 17½in.
width: 49.5cm.; 19½in.
Conceived in 1953, the present work is from the intended edition of 8.
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Acquired by the present owner's grandparents circa 1960 and thence by family descent
Marilyn Robb Trier, 'Art News from Chicago', Art News, May 1955, illustrated pp.10, 58 (another cast);
Roland Penrose, Kenneth Armitage, Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil, 1960, illustrated pl.10 (another cast);
A.M. Hammacher, Modern English Sculpture, Thames & Hudson, London, 1967, illustrated pl.120 (another cast);
Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, cat. no.KA42, p.143;
James Scott and Claudia Milburn, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, cat. no.43, pp.40-1, illustrated pp.39, 100 (another cast).
Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, An Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Young British Sculptors, 2nd - 29th March 1955 (another cast);
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans - Van Beuningen, Kenneth Armitage / William Scott, 3rd - 30th June 1959, cat. no.6 (another cast);
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Kenneth Armitage, July – August 1959, cat. no.14 (another cast);
Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, From Blast to Pop: Aspects of Modern British Art, 1915-1965, 17th April - 15th June 1997, cat. no.55, p.81 (another cast).