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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 23, 2022 | Christie's | London | Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale | 162 | $****** - ****** | Opera Dog |
sculpture
bronze with black patina
signed with monogram, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 6⁄7' (on the back of the left hind leg)
with Waddington Galleries, London, where puchased by the present owner in February 2009.
London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan: sculptures in bronze 1980-1981, December 1981, ex. cat., another cast exhibited.
Venice, British Council, XXXX Venice Biennale, Barry Flanagan: Stone and Bronze Sculptures, June - September 1982, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters, October - December 1982; and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, January - February 1983.
Scotland, National Gallery of Modern Art, Creation: Modern Art and Nature, August - October 1984, no. 79, another cast exhibited.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Barry Flanagan, May - June 1992, catalogue not traced, another cast exhibited.
Montreal, Landau Fine Art, Barry Flanagan, October - December 1992, ex. cat.
Brussels, Xavier Hufkens, Barry Flanagan, June - September 1999, catalogue not traced.
Recklinghausen, British Council, Kunsthalle, Barry Flanagan: Plastik und Zeichnung, May - July 2002, no. 3: this exhibition travelled to Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, December 2002 - May 2003.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Barry Flanagan Sculpture: 1965-2005, June - September 2006, no. 71, another cast exhibited.
London, Tate Britain, Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965-1982, September 2011 - January 2012, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
London, Waddington Custot Galleries, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, March - May 2016, ex. cat., another cast exhibited.
Exhibition catalogue, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture, Venice, British Council, Venice Biennale, 1982, n.p., exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.
P. Townsend (ed.), 'Art Monthly', Art Within Reach: artists and craftworkers, architects and patrons in the making of public art , London, 1984, pp. 40-41, another cast.
Exhibition catalogue, Creation: Modern Art and Nature, Edinburgh, National Gallery of Modern Art, 1984, p. 67, no. 79, another cast illustrated.
K. Maplestone, exhibition catalogue, The Peterborough Collection of Sculpture, Sculpture Trust, Peterborough, 1987, another cast illustrated on the cover.
J. Lewinski, Portrait of the Artist: 25 Years of British Art, Manchester, 1987, p. 61, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barry Flanagan: Plastik und Zeichnung, Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle, 2002, pp. 115, 120, no. 3, illustrated.
E. Juncosa (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Barry Flanagan Sculpture: 1965-2005, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006, pp, 71, 76-77, no. 71, another cast illustrated.
C. Wallis and A. Wilson (eds.), exhibition catalogue, Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965-1982, London, Tate Britain, 2011, pp. 115, 152, 155, pl. 39, another cast illustrated.
C. Preston (ed.), Barry Flanagan, London, 2017, p. 281, pl. 23.
J. Melvin, exhibition catalogue, Barry Flanagan: The Hare is Metaphor, New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2018, p. 103, fig. 21.
BARRY FLANAGAN, R.A. (1941-2009)
Opera Dog
signed with monogram, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 6⁄7' (on the back of the left hind leg)
bronze with a black patina
33 in. (83 cm.) long
Conceived in 1981 and cast by A&A Sculpture Casting, London.
