Family Going for a Walk

Details

Kenneth Armitage, R.A. (1916-2002)
Family Going for a Walk
terracotta, unique
12 in. (30.5 cm.) long
Conceived in 1951.

Provenance

with Gimpel Fils, London,1952.

Literature

A. Bowness (intro.), Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, London, 1997, p. 143, no. KA20.
Exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism amd Other Realities: The Sherwin Collection, Middlesbrough, Institute of Modern Art, 2008, p. 68, illustrated.
S. Levy and T. Persig-Marshall (ed.), exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2009, pp. 82, 114, illustrated.
J. Scott and C. Milburn, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, London, 2016, pp. 10, 92-93, bronze cast illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Gimpel Fils, Sculpture by Kenneth Armitage: Pottery by James Tower: Pen and Ink Drawings by Scottie Wilson, December 1952, no. 47.
Middlesbrough, Institute of Modern Art, British Surrealism and Other Realities: The Sherwin Collection, May - August 2008, exhibition not numbered.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, July - November 2009, exhibition not numbered.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.