Kastellet Girl

Details

Antony Gormley (b. 1950)
Kastellet Girl
incised with the artist's initials, numbered and dated 'AMDG 2004 5/5' (to the underside of the figure's foot)
cast iron
45 ¾ x 17 3/8 x 9 3/8in. (116 x 44 x 24cm.)
Executed in 2004, this work is number five from an edition of five plus one artist’s proof

Provenance

Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.

Exhibited

Umeå, Galleria Andersson/Sandström, Another Singularity, 2008.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Sale Room Notice

Please not that the present work is incised with the artist's initials, numbered and dated 'AMDG 2004 5/5' (to the underside of the figure's foot).

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Lot Essay

‘A solid cast iron sculpture of a young girl bolted upside down onto of the bridge at the heart of the Kastellet School. The concept is to provide a witness to the main stream of life through the school, both a marker in space and a measure of age and height of the living bodies that it interacts with. The work will have an untreated surface; a dynamic response to diferent human and atmospheric conditions. The idea is to use the sculpture as a signifcant reference point for the life of the school, constantly playing truant but also constantly there for everyone’
(Antony Gormley on The Kastellet School Commission, Oslo, Norway, 2004).

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