Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE (British, 1924-2013) Seated Figure with Turban bronze with a brown patina 68.5 cm. (27 in.) high Conceived and cast 1984-5 Unique Fußnoten Provenance The Artist With Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York, 1986, where acquired by the present owner Private Collection, U.K. Exhibited New York, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Anthony Caro From the Figure, April-May 1986, p.4, cat.no.9 Literature Dieter Blume, Anthony Caro Catalogue Raisonne Vol. VIII, Verlag Galerie Wentzel, Cologne, 1982-91, p.68 'I made some figures last year. I have a workshop, an English, American and Canadian workshop. There was a model there who I thought was very good and last year I said, will you come and spend the whole two weeks, and I did nothing but work from her for two weeks. I made about ten sculptures of her and a lot of drawings. And I loved it. I shall do the same next year. I loved it. I don't think it will ever be a substitute. I don't think it will ever be the thing I do mainly instead of doing abstract sculpture. But I don't see the two things as standing in each other's way at all. I do think that when I come to making figurative sculpture, I'm much more troubled by history. History is breathing down my neck. How do I cope with all the past sculpture? and I don't know how to do that. So I think that's the reason ... but the figure's so wonderful, the figure's so marvellous, there's so much goes on. It's so complex, so beautiful .. I love working with the figure' (The Artist in conversation with Diana Eichler for her 1985 thesis). We are grateful to the Artist's studio for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE (British, 1924-2013) Seated Figure with Turban bronze with a brown patina 68.5 cm. (27 in.) high Conceived and cast 1984-5 Unique Fußnoten Provenance The Artist With Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York, 1986, where acquired by the present owner Private Collection, U.K. Exhibited New York, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Anthony Caro From the Figure, April-May 1986, p.4, cat.no.9 Literature Dieter Blume, Anthony Caro Catalogue Raisonne Vol. VIII, Verlag Galerie Wentzel, Cologne, 1982-91, p.68 'I made some figures last year. I have a workshop, an English, American and Canadian workshop. There was a model there who I thought was very good and last year I said, will you come and spend the whole two weeks, and I did nothing but work from her for two weeks. I made about ten sculptures of her and a lot of drawings. And I loved it. I shall do the same next year. I loved it. I don't think it will ever be a substitute. I don't think it will ever be the thing I do mainly instead of doing abstract sculpture. But I don't see the two things as standing in each other's way at all. I do think that when I come to making figurative sculpture, I'm much more troubled by history. History is breathing down my neck. How do I cope with all the past sculpture? and I don't know how to do that. So I think that's the reason ... but the figure's so wonderful, the figure's so marvellous, there's so much goes on. It's so complex, so beautiful .. I love working with the figure' (The Artist in conversation with Diana Eichler for her 1985 thesis). We are grateful to the Artist's studio for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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