Robert Adams (British 1917-1984) §
Three Circular Forms (Wall Sculpture), 1961
£30,200
Auction: 28 April 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
bronzed steel
Dimensions
273cm high (107 1/2in high)
Provenance
Provenance
Gimpel Fils, London.
Footnote
Exhibited
British Pavilion, XXXI Biennale, Venice, 16 June-7 October 1962 (and tour to Germany, Switzerland, Holland and France);
Camden Arts Centre, London, Robert Adams Retrospective Exhibition, June-July 1971, no. 31.
Literature
Grieve, Alastair, The Sculpture of Robert Adams, London: Lund Humphries, 1992, pp. 200-201, no. 371.
This work was included in Adams' career-defining presentation at the Venice Biennale in 1962. Alastair Grieve has explained: 'Adams was given two light, airy galleries in the British Pavilion. The sculptures stood out clearly against the white walls. The second gallery held the more recent works, some of them very large and no doubt conceived with the Biennale in mind, there were three works with large, flat planes, roughly circular, stacked above each other and balanced in relation to each other. In this second gallery Three Circular Forms followed from the wall-mounted sculptures with vertical rods supporting three planes. (op.cit., p.90)