signed with initials, inscribed and dated ‘KA 62 U’ on the inside
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Pandarus: Variation, 1962
Exhibition History:
London, Sotheby’s, Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 10 – 21 January 2011;
London, Canary Wharf, Bronze Sculptures from The Ingram Collection, 16 September – 15 November 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, Bodies! The Ingram Collection, 21 November 2015 – 31 January 2016;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, Kenneth Armitage 1916 – 2002: Centenary Sculpture Exhibition, 10 September – 27 November 2016;
Woking, The Lightbox, In Their Own Words: Artists’ Voices from The Ingram Collection, 20 May – 30 July 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018
Pandarus: Variation, 1962 is one of a series of twelve sculptures on the theme of the Trojan aristocrat, Pandarus. In Homer’s Iliad Pandarus is portrayed as a warrior, energetic, impetuous, but is interpreted differently in other periods. Made between 1962 and 1965 the commonality of Armitage’s sculptures is that they are loosely based on the figure, standing and with hollow conical funnels, rooted yet reaching out. Armitage is known for his simplification of the human form, but also explores emotion and humanity expressed through the language of the body. He states that, “naturally my sculpture contains ideas or experiences other than those that derive directly from observation of the human image. Nevertheless, it is always dressed to some degree in human form.” The figurative image of man remains a key element in his work.
