Austin Wright 1911-1997
27 x 9.5 x 27 cm
The Argument is comprised of four figures, pointedly facing away from each other. Wright’s work during this period had a figurative focus as he was captivated by the groups of people he viewed in York. Speaking in a documentary filmed by the Yorkshire Arts Association in 1970, Wright explained that:
‘I found the activity of watching people as they passed me in the street, or watching people assemble to get on board buses, the fascinating patterns of contiguity and separation between individuals and none of this seemed meaningless, it worked itself out in the course of time in a number of sculptures which were using this idea of the space between a unit in the group.’
Provenance
Crispin WrightExhibitions
Wakefield, 1955, No 101 (another cast shown)British Council in South America, 1957 Winner of the Ricardo Xavier Da Silver Acquisition Prize
The Hepworth Wakefield Collection (lead version)
The Hepworth Wakefield Collection (bronze cast) lent by Sue Wright Andrews widow Austin Wright
Emerging Forms, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, 2018
Literature
James Hamilton, The Sculpture of Austin Wright, ( Lund Humphries, 1994) p83 Cat No S63 (Illustrated on page 23, fig 22)Join our mailing list
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