MODERN SCULPTURE COLLECTION

ROBERT ADAMS
[1917-84]

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ROBERT ADAMS

Abstract: Carver and Welder
Sculpture - 1947 to 1982

Published 2025

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ROBERT ADAMS:

16 sculptures included in the above book:

2. Head, 1947, elm wood, 28 cm high
19. Angular Iron Form, 1957, iron, 83 cm high
21. Pointed Curve and Rectangle, 1957, steel, 25 cm high
22. Circular Form, 1957-8, bronzed steel, 55 cm high
25. Cross, 1959, bronzed steel, 30 cm high
26. Curved Forms [maq.], 1960, bronzed steel, 60 cm high
35. Three Forms, 1963, steel, 27 cm high
37. Rectangle with Vs, 1965, bronzed steel, 42 cm high
39. Horizontal Movement 3 [maq.], 1968, bronzed steel, ed. 5, 42 cm
41. Sculpture, 1969, chromed steel, 51 cm high
42. Cube, 1970, granite, 15 cm high
43. Marble 9, 1971, Sicilian marble, 27 cm long
46. Slim Bronze [Hatchet Form], 1971, bronze, ed. 6, 44 cm long
52. Double Fin, 1974, bronze, ed. 6, 47 cm long
57. Division, 1978, bronze, ed. 6, 41 cm high
62. Crest, 1980, bronze, ed. 6, 25 cm high

ROBERT ADAMS

Block 4, 1970
chromed steel
unique
signed
18 cm long
opus 324
Provenance: W J Erroll collection
Literature: 'Robert Adams',
Grieve, 1992, Lund Humphries,
p. 230, no. 590.

ROBERT ADAMS

Studies for Sculpture
1952
black crayon
signed and dated
31 x 32 cm
Provenance: Gimpel Fils

Robert Adams is an English sculptor who carved, welded and modelled and represented the UK at the Venice Biennale in 1952 and 1962 becoming quite a big international name in the 1950s and 1960s. He exhibited with Gimpel Fils gallery from 1947 onwards.
The Tate Gallery collection includes his work and a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture by Alastair Grieve was published by Lund Humphries.
He is my favourite abstract sculptor.

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