Kenneth Armitage 1916-2002
Seated Woman with Square Head (version B), 1955/1957
Bronze
23 5/8 x 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in
60 x 24 x 30 cm
60 x 24 x 30 cm
Signed with the foundry mark: Susse Foundure Paris
Armitage produced three different versions of Seated Woman with Square Head. The style of his figurative sculptures seems to evolve in the mid-1950s upon the completion of the Gregory Fellowship....
Armitage produced three different versions of Seated Woman with Square Head. The style of his figurative sculptures seems to evolve in the mid-1950s upon the completion of the Gregory Fellowship. The heads of his sculptures become less rounded and the angular shape is emphasised. Armitage created the model for this sculpture in clay before having it cast by Susse foundry in Paris.
Another cast of Seated Woman with Square Head (Version B) is held in the Tate collection.
Another cast of Seated Woman with Square Head (Version B) is held in the Tate collection.
Provenance
Joe Wolpe, Cape Town, South Africa (circa 1991)Private collection, LondonOffer Waterman & Co., London
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above in January 2009)
Exhibitions
1957, London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Recent Sculpture by Kenneth Armitage, no. 12 (another cast)1958, Venice, British Pavilion,Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, no. 71 (another cast
)1959, Antwerp, 5e Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheimpark, (another cast)
1959, Kassel, Documenta, July-October 1959 (another cast)
1959, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings Based on the XXIX Venice Biennale of 1958, no.24 (another cast)
Literature
Roland Penrose, Kenneth Armitage, (Amriswil: Bodensee-Verlag, 1960)Norbert Lynton, Kenneth Armitage, (London: Methuen, 1962)
Tamsyn Woollcombe, Kenneth Armitage Life And Work, (London: The Henry Moore Foundation In Association With Lund Humphries, 1997) p.46
Exhibition Catalogue, Kenneth Armitage Sculptor: A Centenary Celebration, (Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2016 p.82 (Tate Cast)
James Scott and Claudia Milburn. The Sculpture Of Kenneth Armitage, (London: Lund Humphries, 2016)
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