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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2022 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | 344 | $****** - ****** | Opera Dog |
sculpture
80.6 x 27.9 x 86.7 cm (31.75 x 11 x 34.13 in)
bronze
incised with the artist's monogram and number 'bf 4⁄7' (on the front proper left foot)
Waddington Galleries, London
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich
Acquired from the above by the present owner
London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan: Sculptures in Bronze, 1980-1981 , December 1981 (another example exhibited).
Venice Biennale, British Pavilion; Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barry Flanagan: Stone and Bronze Sculptures , June 1982-February 1983, p. 60 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Creation: Modern Art and Nature , August-October 1984, p. 67, no. 79 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
Paris, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Barry Flanagan , May-June 1992 (another example exhibited).
Montreal, Landau Fine Art, Barry Flanagan , October-December 1992 (another example exhibited).
Brussels, Xavier Hufkens, Barry Flanagan , June-September 1999 (another example exhibited).
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture and Drawings , May 2002-May 2003, pp. 115 and 120, no. 3 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965-2005 , June-September 2006, no. 71 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
London, Tate Britain, Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965-1982 , September 2011-January 2012, pp. 115, 152 and 155, fig. 39 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
London, Waddington Custot Galleries, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral , March-May 2016 (another example exhibited).
P. Townsend, ed., "Embellishment with the Public Purse: The Responsibilities of the Public Servant", Art Within Reach: Artists and Craftworkers, Architects and Patrons in the Making of Public Art , London, 1984, pp. 40-41 (another example illustrated).
J. Lewinski, Portrait of the Artist: Twenty five years of British Art , Manchester and New York, 1987, p. 61 (another example illustrated).
The Peterborough Collection of Sculpture , exh. cat., Peterborough, Sculpture Trust, 1987 (another example illustrated on the cover).
C. Preston, ed., Barry Flanagan , London, 2017, pp. 280-281, no. 23 (another example illustrated).
Barry Flanagan: The Hare is Metaphor , exh. cat., New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2018, p. 103, fig. 21 (another example illustrated).
BARRY FLANAGAN (1941-2009)
Opera Dog
incised with the artist's monogram and number 'bf 4⁄7' (on the front proper left foot)
bronze
31 3⁄4 x 11 x 34 1⁄8 in. (78.3 x 28 x 87 cm.)
Conceived in 1981 and cast in 1991. This work is number four from an edition of seven plus one artist's proof.
