Sale 5681
London
|
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.
Contact Client Service
info@christies.com
New York +1 212 636 2000
London +44 (0)20 7839 9060
infoasia@christies.com
Asia +852 2760 1766
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).
Ahead of our Paris sale on 10 September, Meredith Etherington-Smith salutes three generations of collectors from one family
What a newcomer needs to know about the highly collectable, grain-based liquor served at all Chinese state banquets