AUSTIN WRIGHT (BRITISH, 1911-1997) §
SPIKE, 1982
£1,500
Auction: 27 March 2019 from 13:00 GMT
Description
aluminium
Dimensions
42cm across, 27cm high (including base) (16.5in across, 10.5in high (including base))
Footnote
Literature:
James Hamilton, The Sculpture of Austin Wright, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 1994, fig. 89 (Cat. 5325).
Spike is one of a number of small scale scuptures Austin Wright made in the early 1980s, that had a kinship with utensils, each having an apparent purpose which was transcended by their power as sculptures.