KENNETH ARMITAGE, R.A.

PEOPLE IN THE WIND (LARGE VERSION)

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Ground Breaking: Works from the Collection of Joseph & Blanche Blank

KENNETH ARMITAGE, R.A.

1916 - 2002

PEOPLE IN THE WIND (LARGE VERSION)

bronze

height: 65cm.; 25½in.

width: 41cm.; 16in.; depth: 31cm.; 12¼in.

Conceived in 1950-1 and cast in 1951 by John Galizia, the present work is from the edition of 6.

We are grateful to James Scott for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Mr and Mrs Max Wasserman, Brookline, Massachusetts

Weintraub Gallery, New York, where acquired by Joseph and Blanche Blank, 26 February 1985

Norbert Lynton (intro.), Kenneth Armitage, An Arts Council Exhibition, Lund Humphries, London, 1973, illustrated n.p. (another cast)
Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, no. KA8, illustrated p. 28 (another cast)
James Scott and Claudia Milburn, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, no. 14, illustrated p. 93 (another cast)

Venice, The British Pavilion, The XXVI Biennale, New Aspects of British Sculpture, 1 June - 30 September 1952, with tour to Kunsthaus, Switzerland; Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands; and Musee D'art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, Paris (another cast)