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KENNETH ARMITAGE | CHILDREN BY THE SEA

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).

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