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拍品专文
We are very grateful to James Scott for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Conceived in 1953, at a time when the effect of the War was still being felt acutely in Britain, Children by the Sea belongs to Armitage's exhilarating and distinguishing sculptures of joyful children, whose bodies are linked and united to become one collaborative mass.
When shown at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York in March 1954, The New York Times noted: 'The young British sculptor Kenneth Armitage makes a first American appearance at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery with abstract bronzes of figures that stylistically recall the mysterious dehumanisations of Alberto Giacommetti and Henry Moore. His distortions are radical; heads are reduced to pin-heads and arms and legs to matchsticks. Most impressive are the groups, and it is in Children by the Sea that the happiest balance between shape and mass occurs. Nothing representational is found, but the movement is absolutely natural and convincing. We might be looking at the long dramatic shadows of children that are cast on the beach by a low sun'.
Conceived in 1953, at a time when the effect of the War was still being felt acutely in Britain, Children by the Sea belongs to Armitage's exhilarating and distinguishing sculptures of joyful children, whose bodies are linked and united to become one collaborative mass.
When shown at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York in March 1954, The New York Times noted: 'The young British sculptor Kenneth Armitage makes a first American appearance at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery with abstract bronzes of figures that stylistically recall the mysterious dehumanisations of Alberto Giacommetti and Henry Moore. His distortions are radical; heads are reduced to pin-heads and arms and legs to matchsticks. Most impressive are the groups, and it is in Children by the Sea that the happiest balance between shape and mass occurs. Nothing representational is found, but the movement is absolutely natural and convincing. We might be looking at the long dramatic shadows of children that are cast on the beach by a low sun'.