Kenneth Armitage

The Maeda Company, Japan, from whom acquired by a Private Collection in 2005

Sale, Christie's London, 21 November 2013, lot 212, where acquired by the present owner

Tamsyn Woollcombe (ed.), Kenneth Armitage Life and Work, Much Hadham, 1997, no. KA259, p. 150, illustrated, p. 126-7 (another cast)

James Scott and Claudia Milburn, The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage, Lund Humphries, London, 2016, no. 273, illustrated p. 188 (another cast)

'In my bedroom I have had since the end of the Second World War a wooden farmhouse armchair that I like very much, and I made drawings of it in the 1950s. In 1983 I made some sculptures; one big one.....(and) three small ones....made directly in wax; the big one was made in quite a complicated way. It was like a throne with a tall, curved back plate, a seat, forearms, lower legs and head but no body, all welded together....in bronze. By this assembly method and separate modelling of the head, arms and legs, it was possible to achieve greater detail than if it had been made in one piece.' (Kenneth Armitage, 1997)