Anthony Caro 1924-2013
39.4 x 37.5 x 47 cm
Caro found inspiration for Seated Figure from a figure by Gustave Courbet – resulting in this sculpture finding an architectural form that Caro noted was all ‘about space contained. It's about the empty air enclosed by the form’.
Seated Figure (another cast) was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1955 at what was Caro’s first show highlighting his new work – the exhibition was called ‘New Sculptors and Painter-Sculptors’ with submissions chosen by David Sylvester. Caro exhibited two bronzes – Seated Figure and Man Holding his Foot (1955).
This exhibition was heralded in terms of how it changed the perspective of sculpting from carving to modelling through the experimentation of surface textures and materials used that conveyed an intensity in the human form not witnessed before.
Provenance
The Artist's Estate;Private collection
Exhibitions
Anthony Caro: L'évolution d'un sculpteur, Château-musée, Rue de Chastes, Dieppe, France, May 4, 2002-September 1, 2002;
A Sculptor's Development: Anthony Caro, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Millfield, Street, Somerset, UK, September 3, 2001-October 27, 2001;
Anthony Caro: A Sculptor's Development, Town Hall, High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, UK, July 1, 2001-August 19, 2001;
Contemporary British Sculpture, Unknown, Cardiff, Wales, August 9-August 30, 1958;
Contemporary British Sculpture, Unknown, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK, July 5 – August 4, 1958;
Contemporary British Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings, British Embassy, rue d'Arlon 85, Brussels, Belgium, April 1, 1958-July 1, 1958;
Contemporary British Sculpture, Art Gallery & Museum, Avenue Road, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK, May 31-June 22, 1958;
Contemporary British Sculpture, Castle Museum, Nottingham (and at four other venues), May 25, 1957-October 12, 1957;
Anthony Caro, Gimpel Fils Gallery, 30 Davies Street, London, UK, January 8, 1957-January 26, 1957;
Anthony Caro, Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, Italy, March 19, 1956-March 28, 1956;
Contemporary Painting, Sculpture and Craft, City Art Gallery, Municipal Buildings, 74 The Headrow, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK, November 30, 1955-December 31, 1955;
New Sculptors and Painter Sculptors, Institute of Contemporary Art, Nash House, The Mall, London, UK, August 11, 1955-September 3, 1955;
Contemporary British Sculpture, Unknown, Cardiff, Wales, August 9-August 30, 1958;
Contemporary British Sculpture, Unknown, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK, July 5 – August 4, 1958;
Contemporary British Sculpture, Art Gallery & Museum, Avenue Road, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK, May 31-June 22, 1958
Literature
Bryant, Julius. Anthony Caro: Figurative and Narrative Sculpture vol. 3/5. Surrey, United Kingdom: Lund Humphries, 2009: 21;
Unknown. "Caro's retrospective at Tate Britain." London Easy Magazine. 2005;
Moorhouse, Paul, Michael Fried, Dave Hickey. Anthony Caro. Exhibition catalogue. London: Tate Publishing, 2005: 8-112, 10;
Moorhouse, Paul. Interpreting Caro. London: Tate Publishing, 2005: 5-46, 6;
Barker, Ian. Anthony Caro: Quest for the New Sculpture. London: Lund Humphries, 2004: 58, 67, 57, 60, 70;
Pierre Ickowicz. "Avant-Propos." Anthony Caro: L'évolution d'un sculpteur. 2002: 5, 19;
Unknown. "Sculptor with the skills of a welder." Galleries. 2001;
Judy Grahame. "A sculptor's development." (No Title). 2001;
Elliott, Ann & Christine Hall. "The Sculptures." A Sculptor's Development: Anthony Caro. 2001: 9-45, 13;
Patrick Le Nouëne. "Préface, Sculptures figuratives d'Anthony Caro des années cinquante et des années quatre-vingt." Anthony Caro. 1996: 9, 22-102, 113;
Clare Hillman. "Introduction/Artist/Viewer/Conclusion." Figuring Anthony Caro: The Early Work. 1997: 2-44, Fig. 14;
Carandente, Giovanni, Ian Barker. CARO at the Trajan Markets, Rome. Exhibition catalogue. London: Lund and Humphries, 1992: 11-12;
Dieter Blume, Anthony Caro, Catalogue Raisonne Vol. IV, Verlag Galerie Wentzel, Cologne, 1982-91, 49;
Larry Berryman. "British Sculpture 1950-1965." (No Title). 1986: 337;
Lynton, Norbert. Five Sculptures by Anthony Caro. An Arts Council Collection Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1982: 7-23, 8;
Unknown. "Young Men's Sculpture." The Times, August 12, 1955
