Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale
Modern & Post War British Art Day Sale
Kenneth Armitage, R.A.
Sprawling Woman
Lot Closed
June 30, 11:36 AM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Kenneth Armitage, R.A.
1916 - 2002
Sprawling Woman
signed KA, dated 69 and numbered 4/6 (on the underside of the back) and stamped with foundry stamp (towards the base)
bronze
length: 65.5cm.; 24¾in
height: 21cm.; 8¼in.
Conceived in 1957 and one cast in 1957. The present work is number 4 from the edition of 6 cast by Susse Fondeur, Paris in 1969.
Galerie Semiha Huber, Zürich, where acquired by Mary Schiller Myers and Louis S. Mayers in February 1971
Their sale, Sotheby's New York, 12 November 2009, lot 102, where acquired by the present owner
Their sale, Sotheby's New York, 12 November 2009, lot 102, where acquired by the present owner
Norbert Lynton, Kenneth Armitage, Metheun, London, 1962, illustrated n.p. (another cast)
Tamsyn Woollcombe, Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, no. KA80
James Scott and Claudia Milburn, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, no. 77, illustrated p. 114 (another cast)
Tamsyn Woollcombe, Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, no. KA80
James Scott and Claudia Milburn, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, no. 77, illustrated p. 114 (another cast)