Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction

Kenneth Armitage, R.A.

Seated Woman with Square Head (Version B)

Artist's Resale RightVAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

November 22, 01:24 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Kenneth Armitage

1916 - 2002

Seated Woman with Square Head (Version B)

signed with the Artist's initials KA, numbered 6/6 and stamped with foundry mark (on the base)

bronze

height: 60cm.; 23½in.

Conceived in 1955 and cast by Susse Fondeur Paris in 1957, the present work is number 6 from the edition of 6, including one cast in the Tate, London.

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

Galeira Conkrit, Caracas, where acquired by the father of the present owner, 24 October 1974, and thence by descent

Roland Penrose, Kenneth Armitage, Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil, 1960, illustrated plates 12 and 16 (another cast)

Norbert Lynton (ed.), Kenneth Armitage, Methuen, London, 1962, n.p.

Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, no. KA54, illustrated p. 46 (another cast)

Kenneth Armitage Sculptor: A Centenary Celebration, Sansom & Company, 2016, illustrated pl. 55, p. 82 (Tate cast)

James Scott and Claudia Milburn (eds.), The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, no. 58C

London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Recent Sculpture by Kenneth Armitage, October – November 1957, no. 12 illustrated, n.p. (another cast)

Venice, British Pavilion, Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, June – October 1958, no. 71 (another cast)

Antwerp, Middelheimpark, 5e Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst , May – September 1959, no. 4, p. 21 (another cast)

Kassel, II. Documenta ' 59, Kunst nach 1945, internationale Ausstellung, 11 July – 11 October 1959, no. 2, illustrated p. 2 (another cast)

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings Based on the XXIX Venice Biennale of 1958, July – August 1959, no. 24 (another cast)