signed with initials and numbered ‘K A No. 2’ on the back of the base
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Model for the Krefeld Monument No. 2, 1956
Provenance:
with Paul Rosenburg & Co. New York, 1959
Exhibition History:
Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
London, Sotheby’s, Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 10 – 21 January 2011;
London, Pangolin Gallery, Exorcising the Fear, 11 January – 3 March 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, 6 March – 15 April 2012;
London, Canary Wharf, Bronze Sculptures from the Ingram Collection, 16 September – 15 November 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: The Impact of War, 15 October 2014 – 4 January 2015;
Norwich, The Sainsbury Centre, UEA, Alberto Giacometti: A Line through Time, 23 April – 29 August 2016;
Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, Kenneth Armitage 1916 – 2002: Centenary Sculpture Exhibition, 10 September – 27 November 2016;
Leeds, The Audrey and Stanley Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Kenneth Armitage: Sculpture and Drawings of the 1950s, 15 March – 15 July 2017;
Sheffield, Museums Sheffield, Darkness into Light, 20 October 2018 – 13 January 2019;
Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, Alberto Giacometti: A Line through Time, 16 June – 29 September 2019
Literature:
Tamsyn Woollcombe, Kenneth Armitage, Life and Work, Much Hadham, 1997 (illustrated, no. KA62, p. 55-57)
After serving in the Second World War and beginning a teaching career at Bath Academy of Art, Kenneth Armitage’s artistic reputation grew slowly. At 36, after his first solo show at Gimpel Fils Gallery in 1952, Armitage established himself by winning the International War Memorial Competition for the town of Krefeld in Germany (although the project was not realised).
