Maquette (Opus 145)

Details

Robert Adams (1917-1984)
Maquette (Opus 145)
bronzed steel, unique
9½ in. (24 cm.) high.
Conceived in 1962.

Provenance

with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the present owner, 2006.

Literature

A. Grieve, The Sculpture of Robert Adams, London, 1992, p. 202, no. 379, illustrated.

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.

Lot Essay

The present work is a maquette for Two Circular Forms No. 2, which was exhibited when Adams represented Britain at the 1962 Venice Biennale, and is now in the collection of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome.

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