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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anthony Caro, Figure, 1955-56

Anthony Caro 1924-2013

Figure, 1955-56
Ink on newsprint
33 x 21 in
83.8 x 53.3 cm
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In contrast to the other works on paper, this image was completed during Caro’s time teaching at St Martin’s School of Art in London. It reflects his departure in style...
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In contrast to the other works on paper, this image was completed during Caro’s time teaching at St Martin’s School of Art in London. It reflects his departure in style from traditional life-drawing classes – as depicted in Seated Man and Seated Woman which sought to imitate observed reality – to a less imitative and more subjective, intuitive form of sketching.
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Provenance

The Artist's Estate

Exhibitions

Caro in Yorkshire, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, 2015;

Anthony Caro, Museo Correr, San Marco 52, Venice, Italy, May 30, 2013-October 27, 2013

Literature

Wallis, Simon, Peter Murray, Tim Marlow, Helen Pheby, Eleanor Clayton. Caro in Yorkshire. Exhibition catalogue. Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle, 2015;

Mark Francis. "Caro at Museo Correr - Gagosian Gallery ." Caro at Museo Correr. 2013;

Moorhouse, Paul, Michael Fried, Dave Hickey. Anthony Caro. Exhibition catalogue. London: Tate Publishing, 2005: 8-112, 10;

Moorhouse, Paul. Interpreting Caro. London: Tate Publishing, 2005: 5-46, 6;

Barker, Ian. Anthony Caro: Quest for the New Sculpture. London: Lund Humphries, 2004: 15-342, 57;

Dieter Blume, Anthony Caro Catalogue Raisonné Vol. XII, Cologne, 1996, cat. no. D425, p. 86, illustrated

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