Details
ANTONY GORMLEY, R.A. (B. 1950)
IRON BABY
signed with initials, stamped with studio reference number and dated 'AMDG/1999/ 1⁄10' (on the underside)
cast iron
4 ¾ x 11 x 6 ¾ in. (12 x 28 x 17 cm.)
Conceived in 1999 and cast in an edition of 10.
Provenance
A gift from the artist to Tommy's Campaign in 1999.
Their charity sale, Baby 2000: Contemporary Art; Christie's, London, 4 November 1999, lot 34.
with Waddington Galleries, London, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above in June 2000, and thence by descent.
Literature
M. Mack (ed.), Antony Gormley, Göttingen, 2007, p. 519, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
Catanzaro, Parco Archeologico di Scolacium, Roccelletta di Borgia, Intersezioni 2: Antony Gormley: Time Horizon, June - October 2006, pp. 161, 231, another cast illustrated.
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time, January - May 2009, pp. 20, 25, no. 14, another cast illustrated.
Salford, The Lowry, One Side to the Other, November 2014 - February 2015, another cast exhibited.
London, The Foundling Museum, Found, May - September 2016, pp. 62-63, another cast illustrated.
London, Royal Academy, Antony Gormley, September - December 2019, pp. 42, 69, 72-75, no. 1, another cast illustrated on the cover.

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