MODERN SCULPTURE COLLECTION

ROBERT ADAMS
[1917-84]

ROBERT ADAMS

Head
1947
[opus 47/21]
elm wood-carving
unique
28 cm high
Provenance: Gimpel Fils Gallery
23 November 1999
Literature:
'Sculpture of Robert Adams'
A Grieve, Lund Humphries, 1992
no. 50, p. 150

ROBERT ADAMS

Circular Bronze Form 1957/8
welded bronzed steel
unique
55 cm high
Provenance: Gimpel Fils Gallery
7 January 2002

ROBERT ADAMS

Angular Iron Form
1957
[opus 21]
welded iron
unique
83 cm high
Provenance: Gimpel Fils Gallery
1 November 2017
Exhibited: Gimpel Fils Gallery;
one-man exhibition February/March 2015
Literature:
'Sculpture of Robert Adams'
A. Grieve, Lund Humphries, 1992
no. 224, illustrated p. 179

ROBERT ADAMS

Maquette for Large Sculpture:
[24 Cathcart Road, London] 1963
steel
unique
27 cm high
Provenance: Gimpel Fils Gallery
Literature:
'Sculpture of Robert Adams'
A Grieve, Lund Humphries, 1992
no. 443, p. 100 and 211
The Tate Gallery collection
includes sketch studies for this

ROBERT ADAMS

Rectangle with Vees
1965
bronzed steel, unique
42 x 30 cm

Provenance: The artist; Gimpel Fils Gallery, 1966
Private collection, UK; Osborne Samuel Gallery, London;
Stoops Gallery, Kelbrook; Private collection, UK.

Exhibited: 'Robert Adams', one-man exhibition; Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, October 1966, no. 15.

Literature: 'The Sculpture of Robert Adams', A Grieve, Lund Humphries, 1992, p. 217, no. 492 [illustrated].

ROBERT ADAMS

Sculpture
1969
chromed steel
unique
signed and dated
51.5 cm high
Provenance: Gimpel Fils Gallery
Literature:
'Sculpture of Robert Adams'
A Grieve, Lund Humphries, 1992
no. 563, p. 226-7

ROBERT ADAMS

Horizontal Movement
[maquette no. 3 - opus 277]
1968 enamelled steel
3/5
signed
42 cm long
Provenance: Gimpel Fils Gallery
Literature:
'Sculpture of Robert Adams'
A Grieve, Lund Humphries, 1992
p. 224, no. 551

ROBERT ADAMS

Marble 9
1971
sicilian marble
unique
signed and dated
27 cm long
Provenance: Gimpel Fils Gallery;
Sothebys, 2013
Literature:
'Sculpture of Robert Adams'
A Grieve, Lund Humphries, 1992
no. 594, p. 123

ROBERT ADAMS

Double Fin
1974
bronze
edition of 6 [1/6]
signed and dated Provenance: Gimpel Fils Gallery;
Private collection, USA [2006]
Literature:
'Sculpture of Robert Adams'
A Grieve, Lund Humphries, 1992
p. 234, no. 627

ROBERT ADAMS

Slim Bronze / Hatchet Form
1971
bronze
2/6
signed
44.5 cm long
Provenance: Gimpel Fils Gallery
3 October 2000
Literature:
'Sculpture of Robert Adams'
A Grieve, Lund Humphries, 1992
p. 230, no. 593

ROBERT ADAMS

Division
1978
bronze
edition of 6
3/6
signed
41 cm high
Provenance: Gimpel Fils Gallery;
Private collection - 5 June 2014
Literature:
'Sculpture of Robert Adams'
A Grieve, Lund Humphries, 1992
p. 237, no. 650

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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