Six Foot Leaping Hare on Steel Pyramid

Details

BARRY FLANAGAN, R.A. (1941-2009)
Six Foot Leaping Hare on Steel Pyramid
signed with monogram, numbered and stamped with foundry mark '0⁄0' (on the underside of the hare)
bronze with a black patina and steel
98 ½ in. (250.2 cm.) high
Conceived in 1990 and cast in an edition of 8 + 3 artist's casts.
Cast in 1990 by A&A Sculpture Casting, London.

Provenance

with Pace Wildenstein, New York, where purchased by the present owner in August 1994.

Literature

S. Lawson, The 20th Century Art Book, London, 1996, p. 141, another cast illustrated.
Waddington Galleries (ed.), Extracts from Writings and Interviews by Barry Flanagan, London, 2003, p. 21, another cast illustrated.
E. Juncosa (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Barry Flanagan Sculpture: 1965-2005, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006, pp. 201, 210, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.
C. Preston (ed.), Barry Flanagan, London, 2017, pp. 201, 283, no. 69, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, Animalia: Stellvertreter, September - November 1990, p. 51, another cast illustrated.
London, Business Design Centre, Waddington Galleries, Art '92, January 1992, no catalogue, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Barry Flanagan, May - June 1992, another cast exhibited.
Salisbury, Roche Court Sculpture Garden, Barry Flanagan, May - October 1992, another cast exhibited.
Somerset, Millfield School, Millfield British 20th Century Sculpture Exhibition, June - July 1992, p. 13, another cast illustrated.
West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Names of the Hare: Large Bronzes by Barry Flanagan, 1983-1990, June - August 1992, p. 1, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.
New York, Pace Gallery, Barry Flanagan: Recent Sculpture, April - June 1994, pp. 6-7, illustrated.
Salisbury, Roche Court Sculpture Garden, Twentieth Century British Sculpture, April - September 1994, another cast exhibited.
London, Waddington Galleries, Barry Flanagan, October - November 1994, pp. 16-17, 57, no. 4, another cast illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Dublin, RHA Gallagher Gallery, February - March 1995.
New York, 54th to 59th Street, Barry Flanagan on Park Avenue, September 1995 - January 1996, another cast exhibited.
Chicago, Grant Park, Barry Flanagan: Sculpture in Grant Park, May - September 1996, another cast exhibited.
Tehran, Museum of Contemporary Art, Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture, 2004, pp. 76-77, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.
Cambridge, Jesus College, Remembering Flanagan, June - September 2011, another cast exhibited.
Chesterfield, Chatsworth House, Beyond Limits: Chatsworth House, September - October 2012, pp. 58-65, 110, 140, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.

Further Details

We are very grateful to the Barry Flanagan Estate for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.