Kenneth Armitage

Lot Description Kenneth Armitage (1916-2002) Model for Diarchy (small version) bronze 12 x 7½ x 7½ in. (30.4 x 19 x 19 cm.) Executed in 1957. Provenance Dominion Gallery, Montreal Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1959 Pre-Lot Text Property from a distinguished Canadian Collection Literature T. Woollcombe, ed., Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, London 1997, p. 144.

Kenneth Armitage, R.A. (1916-2002) The Visitors bronze with a black patina 22½ in. (57.2 cm.) wide Conceived in 1961. Purchased by the present owner in the 1960s or early 1970s. Exhibition catalogue, Kenneth Armitage, London, Marlborough Gallery, 1962, no. 8, illustrated. T. Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, Much Hadham, 1997, p. 144, no. KA95. New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., An Exhibition of Recent Sculpture by Kenneth Armitage, March 1962, no. 10, another cast. London, Marlborough Gallery, Kenneth Armitage, May 1962, no. 8, another cast. The present work is an early sculpture from a series of works that the artist began to develop in the 1960s. For much of this decade Kenneth Armitage was concerned with the theme of grouping figures into a single form. Armitage talks about his work in the following statement 'I wanted to merge them (the figures) so completely they formed a new organic unit - a simple mass of whatever shape I liked containing only that number of heads, limbs or other detail I felt necessary. So in a crowd we see only the face or hand that catches our eye, for we don't see mathematically but only what is most conspicuous or important or familiar' (Kenneth Armitage's statement in P. Selz, New Images of Man, p. 23). There is another cast of The Visitors in The Kreeger Museum, Washington, D.C.

Lot 502 Kenneth Armitage (British, 1916-2002) Standing Girl with Arms Crossed , 1954 Initialed and dated "KA 1954" l.l., identified on labels, including one from the British Council Fine Arts Department, affixed to the backing. Black chalk and wash on paper, sight size 21 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (54.0 x 29.2 cm), framed. Condition: Toning, subtle rippling, not examined out of frame. Estimate $800-1,200 Paper tape hinged at all four corners, titled on the backing mat l.r., toned, rippling to sheet, sheet size 22 1/2 x 18 7/8 in., unable to examine the reverse due to hinges, skinning to center right edge measuring approx. 3/8 x 3/8 in. at extreme height and width with minor loss measuring approx. 3/8 x 1/8 in., no additional condition issues to report.

Number 484 artist Kenneth Armitage location of birth Leeds date of birth 1916 date of death 2002 location of death Leeds title OHNE TITEL indicators Monogrammed and dated in pencil lower left: KA ?57 work date 1957 medium Brush in white and black India ink dimensions cm 76 x 21 estimates eur 3 cm publisher 4.000-6.000 printer Private collection cat. rais author Berlin@

Lot Description Kenneth Armitage, R.A. (1916-2002) Seated Woman with Square Head signed with initials, numbered, dated and stamped with the foundry mark 'KA 1955/85 5/6 B' (on the back of the base) bronze with a black patina 23½ in. (59.6 cm.) high Conceived in 1955 and cast in 1985. Lot Condition Report I confirm that I have read this Important Notice and agree to its terms. View Condition Report Pre-Lot Text PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION Literature T. Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, London, 1997, pp. 46, 143, no. KA54, another cast illustrated. V. Petersen (ed.), Dresing Collection, Denmark, 2008, pp. 13, 26, illustrated.