Antony Gormley (b. 1950)
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Antony Gormley (b. 1950)

CALM

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Antony Gormley (b. 1950)
CALM
signed, titled and inscribed 'for The Tricycle Calm Antony Gormley' (on the reverse)
carbon and casein on paper
30 x 43 7/8in. (76 x 111.4cm.)
Executed in 2012
Provenance
Donated by the Artist.
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 note that the present work is signed, titled and inscribed 'for The Tricycle Calm Antony Gormley' (on the reverse).

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Lot Essay

'CALM is part of an ongoing series in which rather than drawing on the paper I have drawn in it. The idea is to make a field that while not using perspective nevertheless has a feeling of depth and continuation. I wanted to simply leave a surface of marks that in their syncopation not only refer to the surface of water but to a sense of continuum. My drawings have evolved towards dispersing the subject and inviting a kind of reverie or ‘dreaming with the eyes open’ within myself during the act of drawing and also in anyone looking at it afterwards. Rather than identifying a figure against a ground in these drawings you float in a suggestion of endlessness: space and time without edge or limit. This is less, then, about the depiction of an object or the description of an event but an idea about immersion in time and space as both a perceptual act and creative activity'
(Antony Gormley, 2015).

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