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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 5, 2016 | Christie's | London | The Leslie Waddington Collection | 4 | $****** - ****** | Acrobats |
sculpture
149.2 x 41.9 x 45.7 cm (58.75 x 16.5 x 18 in)
bronze with a green and brown patina
Acquired directly from the artist by Leslie Waddington circa 1981.
London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan: Sculptures in bronze 1980-1981, December 1981, not numbered (illustrated, p. 28).
Tokyo, British Council, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Aspects of British Art Today, February - April 1982, no. 75 (illustrated, p. 111). This exhibition travelled to Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, April - May 1982; Osaka, National Museum of Art, June - July 1982; Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, August 1982; and Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, September - October 1982.
Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Zeitgeist: Internationale Kunstausstellung, October - December 1982, no. 79 (illustrated, p. 115).
Venice, British Council, British Pavilion, XXXX Venice Biennale, Barry Flanagan: Stone and Bronze Sculptures, June - September 1982, no. 24. This exhibition travelled to Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters, October - December 1982; and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, January - February 1983.
Paris, British Council, Centre Georges Pompidou, Barry Flanagan Sculptures, March - May 1983, not numbered (illustrated, p. 64).
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Dialog, September - October 1985, not numbered (illustrated, p. 67).
London, Waddington Custot Galleries, Two Pataphysicians: Flanagan - Miró, October - November 2014, no. 15 (illustrated in colour, p. 47).
T. Hilton and M. Compton, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture, London, 1982, fig. 67 (illustrated, pp. 64 and 92; installation view illustrated in colour, p. 53).
R. Fuchs (intro.), Documenta 7, Vol. 2, exh. cat., Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Neue Galerie, 1982, (illustrated, p. 122).
Barry Flanagan, exh. cat., Madrid, British Council, Fundación "la Caixa", 1993 (another cast illustrated, p. 29).
E. Juncosa (ed.), Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965-2005, exh. cat., Dublin, Museum of Modern Art and City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, 2006 (installation view illustrated, pp.74 and 77).
Barry Flanagan: Sculptures 2001-2008, exh. cat., London, Waddington Galleries, 2008, no. 14 (another cast illustrated, p. 41).
C. Wallis and A. Wilson (eds.), Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965-1982, exh. cat., London, Tate Gallery, September 2011 - January 2012 (installation view illustrated in colour, p. 30; installation view illustrated, p. 152).
this work is artist's cast number one from an edition of three plus three artist's casts
