
Mary Gatenby
Specialist
Sold for £1,664 inc. premium
Our Modern British & Irish Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistSpecialist
Cataloguer
Provenance
With Alvin Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, 1985
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
Norwich, Castle Museum, Kenneth Armitage: An Arts Council Exhibition, 16 December 1972-14 January 1973, this exhibition travelled to Bolton, Oldham Kettering, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Llanelli, Leeds and Hull
Literature
K. Armitage, A. Bowness and T. Woollcoombe, Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 1997, p. 146, no. KA162
A. Elliot and J. McEwen, Kenneth Armitage, Sculptor A Centenary Celebration, Sansom and Company, Bristol, 2016, p. 102, pl. 80, illustrated
J. Scott, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, p. 150, no. 176, illustrated
When describing his inspiration for the 'Arm' sculptures, Kenneth Armitage refers to how his eye 'suddenly caught sight of this fragment of a colossal statue, part of a forearm, resting on two blocks' whilst visiting the British Museum. The resulting sculptures are described in Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work as marking the beginning of a shift away from Armitage's Epstein influenced bronzes, towards a more contemporary, geometric style. (K. Armitage, A. Bowness and T. Woollcoombe, Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, Henry Moore Foundation and Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 1997, pp. 96 and 99)