Lot 63
KENNETH ARMITAGE (BRITISH 1916-2002) §
MODEL FOR DIARCHY (SMALL VERSION), CONCEIVED 1957
Auction: MODERN MADE | Lots 1 - 422 | Fri 01 May at 10am
Description
bronze with a dark green/black patina, cast by Fiorini in an edition of 6+1 in 1959
Dimensions
30.5cm high, 19cm wide, 17cm deep (12in high, 7 ½in wide, 6 ¾in deep)
Provenance
Sothebys, London, 20th Century British Art, 14 March 2006, lot 88;
Private Collection, London.
Footnote
Exhibited:
Leeds, City Art Gallery, Modern Sculpture, 8th October - 5th November 1958, cat. no.1, illustrated (another cast);
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Kenneth Armitage, July - August 1958, cat. no.38 (another cast);
British Pavilion, XXIX Venice Biennale, Kenneth Armitage, S.W. Hayter, William Scott, 1958, cat. no.85 (another cast).
Literature:
Woollcombe, Tamsyn (ed.), Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, Lund Humphries, London 1997, cat, no. 78, p. 144.
