Sale 5681
London
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23 October 1996
Price realised
GBP 54,300
Estimate
Barry Flanagan (b. 1941) Hare and Bell signed with a monogram and numbered '4/7' (on the underside of the hare) bronze with a dark brown patina 51½ x 37½ x 24 in. (130.8 x 95 x 61 cm.) Conceived in 1981
Provenance
Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner.
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Exhibited
C. Lampert (intro.), Barry Flanagan, British Council, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1983, p.58 (another cast illustrated).
A cast from the series was included in the selection of works Flanagan exhibited at the XXXX Venice Biennale in 1982 (no.18).
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