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Creator:
Kenneth Armitage, 1916–2002
Title:

Triarchy

Date:
1957
Medium:
Bronze
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/2 × 15 × 5 inches (26.7 × 38.1 × 12.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Helena M. Segy
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B1996.20
Classification:
Sculptures
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
abstract art | figure study
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1528
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Kenneth Armitage was among the eight young British sculptors invited to exhibit at the Venice Biennale in 1952 (another was Lynn Chadwick, whose sculpture is shown nearby). In 1958, Armitage showed at Venice a second time—including a version of Triarchy—and won the David E. Bright Foundation Prize for a sculptor under forty-five. The show toured to other European museums and helped establish Armitage’s international reputation. Armitage went on to make a number of further works in which figures are melded together in a wall-like slab. This bronze is an edition from a plaster model that was used to develop a large-scale public sculpture.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016

Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]


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