ID 1437392
Lot 44 | BARRY FLANAGAN, R.A. (1941-2009)
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
Handstand in Aid of Millennial Blessings
signed with monogram, numbered ‘6/8’ and stamped with foundry mark (on the reverse of the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
32 1/8 in. (81.3 cm.) high
Conceived in 1999.
Provenance
with Galerie von Bartha, Basel.
Acquired from the above for the present collection in March 2001.
Literature
C. Preston (ed.), Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1966-2009, London, 2017, pp. 198, 284, no. 116, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, The Hare is Metaphor, New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2018, p. 107, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan: Seeing Round Corners, February - March 2001, p. 97, no. 99, another cast illustrated.
Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Barry Flanagan, February - April 2002, another cast exhibited.
New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Barry Flanagan: Sculptures, February - March 2004 another cast exhibited.
Salzburg, Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, Barry Flanagan: Sculptures, July - August 2007, another cast exhibited.
Salisbury, New Arts Centre, Barry Flanagan: Hare Coursed, May - September 2009, another cast exhibited.
London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan: Works 1966-2008 , March - April 2010, no. 20, p. 61, another cast illustrated.
London, Waddington Custot, Two Pataphysicians: Flanagan, Miró, October - November 2014, pp. 70-71, 87, no. 27, another cast illustrated.
London, Fortnum and Mason, Fortnum's X Frank AW16, 2016, p. 39, no. 24, another cast illustrated.
Basel, von Bartha, Barry Flanagan, May - July 2021.
Further details
We are very grateful to the Barry Flanagan Estate for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Artist: | Barry Flanagan (1941 - 2009) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Modern art |
Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
Artist: | Barry Flanagan (1941 - 2009) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Modern art |
Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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