Standing figure (life study)

Details

Kenneth Armitage, R.A. (1916-2002)
Standing figure (life study)
signed with intials 'KA' and stamped with the foundry stamp 'GUSS:H.NOACK BERLIN' (on the back of the base)
bronze with a brown/green patina
42 in. (106.7 cm.) high
Conceived in 1953.

Literature

N. Lynton, Kenneth Armitage, London, 1962, p. 9, another cast illustrated.
T. Woollcoombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, Much Hadham, 1997, p. 143, KA33, another cast illustrated p. 37.

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Lot Essay

Norbert Lynton comments on the present work, 'It's outline is almost as crisp a frame as that of the earlier figure [Flat standing figure, 1953], and the upper part of the body is almost as flat, but there is a plasticity even about this upper portion (a plasticity, then, of surface) which, underlined by the swelling belly and the unusually massive legs, suggests a new interest in mass, weight and texture and their inherent drama' (se N. Lynton, op. cit, p. 31).

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