• Kenneth Armitage
  • Figure Lying on its side 1957

    bronze with green patina

    length: 33 in / 83.8 cm

     

    Provenance

    Dr Edgar Berman

     

    Exhibited

    Venice, British Pavilion, Kenneth Armitage, S.W. Hayter & William Scott 1958, XXIX Venice Biennale, cat no.76, illus b/w, another cast

    London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., Critic’s Choice 1958, David Sylvester, 1– 26 July 1958, cat no.29, illus, p23, another cast

    Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Kenneth Armitage & William Scott, 3–30 June 1959, cat no.20, illus, another cast

    London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Kenneth Armitage, July–August 1959, cat no.32, illus, pl xiv, another cast

    Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, 12 April–15 May 1960, cat no.15, another cast, touring to: Ulm; Duisberg; Berlin;

    Nurnberg Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Recent British Sculpture, 13 April 1961, cat no.8, illus, another cast,touring to: Montreal; Winnipeg; Regina; Toronto; London; Vancouver; Auckland; Wellington; Dunedin; Christchurch; Adelaide; Perth;

    Hobart; Launceston; Melbourne; Sydney; Brisbane; Newcastle; Canberra; Tokyo; Kyoto

    London, Tate Gallery, 54–64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 22 April–28 June 1964, cat no.204, illus,artist’s cast

    Norwich, Castle Museum, Kenneth Armitage, 16 December 1972–14 January 1973, cat no.11, illus b/w, p14, another cast, touring to: Bolton; Oldham; Kettering;

    Nottingham; Portsmouth;Plymouth; Llanelli; Leeds; Hull

    London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, 11 September 1981–24 January 1982, illus, p133, another cast

    Leeds, City Art Galleries, Herbert Read: A British Vision of World Art, 25 November 1993–5 February 1994, cat no.10, fig 153, illus b/w, another cast

    London, Barbican Art Gallery, Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties, 31 January–14 April 2002, cat no.4, illus, p66, another cast

     

    Literature

    Roland Penrose, Kenneth Armitage: Artists of our Time Vol.vii, Bodensee - Verlag, Amriswil, Switzerland, 1960, cat. no.19, illustrated (another cast);

    Charles Spencer, Kenneth Armitage, Academy Editions, London, 1973, illustrated p.9 (another cast);

    Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.) in association with the artist, Kenneth Armitage: Life and Work, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1997, KA67, p.144, illustrated p.47 (another cast).