Barry Flanagan (1941-2009)

Hare on Elephant

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Barry Flanagan (1941-2009)
Hare on Elephant
incised with the artist's initials and numbered 'f 7/7' (lower edge)
bronze
28 x 18 x 8¾in. (71.1 x 45.7 x 22cm.)
Executed in 1983, this work is number seven from an edition of seven plus three artist's proofs

来源

Waddington Galleries, London.
Private Collection, Belgium.

展览

London, Waddington Galleries, Groups VII, January 1984 (illustrated p. 34).

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拍品专文

Barry Flanagan's iconic Nijinsky hare is positioned on the back of an elephant exhibiting a playful juxtaposition of the agile light dancer contrasted by its weighty companion. It was at the end of the 1970s when Flanagan was driving past a field in Sussex noticing a leaping hare. Inspired by the freedom and playfulness of the animal Flanagan began incorporating the hare as re-occurring motif within his practice: 'Thematically the choice of the hare is quite a rich and expressive sort of model ... And on a practical level, if you consider what conveys situation and meaning and feeling in a human figure, the range of expression is in fact far more limited than the device of investing an animal -a hare especially- with the expressive attributes of a human being.' (Barry Flanagan, quoted in H.-J. Schwalm, "When hares can dance and balance", Barry Flanagan, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, 2003).