λ TONY CRAGG (BRITISH B. 1949), UNTITLED

λ TONY CRAGG (BRITISH B. 1949) UNTITLED Bronze 90 x 60 x 60cm (35¼ x 23½ x 23½ in.) Executed in 2012. Provenance: Purchased from Blain Southern, Berlin, December 2012 by Micky Johnson Tony Cragg is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation, associated with the New British Sculpture movement of the 1980s alongside Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor, and Antony Gormley. Born in Liverpool in 1949, he studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1977, and by the late 1980s had achieved international recognition. In 1988, he represented Britain at the 42nd Venice Biennale and was awarded the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery. Cragg has consistently pushed the boundaries of material and form, employing substances as varied as plastic, wood, stone, and bronze to explore the intersection of natural and industrial grammars. His work is characterised by biomorphic abstraction, that is, forms that appear simultaneously organic and mechanical, suggesting geological growth, molecular structures or futuristic architecture. He was appointed Professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1988-2001) and awarded a CBE in 2002. His sculptures are represented in the collections of the Tate (London), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and the Centre Pompidou (Paris), among others. Indeed, his artistic practice is continually informed by this approach to form as a language in itself. It is evident in the Untitled (2012) bronze offered here, where Cragg deploys the medium's weight and permanence to create a form that appears paradoxically fluid. Rising vertically with a twisting, stratified rhythm, the work evokes both geological layering and the dynamism of a body in motion. The polished surface enhances the play of light across the folds and curves, heightening the sense of movement within mass. As with much of Cragg's mature practice, the work resists a single reading. Instead, it oscillates between the organic and the industrial, suggesting natural evolution while asserting the sculptural autonomy of pure abstraction. Condition Report: The work is in very good condition. There is one very small nick at the very bottom of one of the sides of the base. Condition Report Disclaimer, λ, λ TONY CRAGG (BRITISH B. 1949), UNTITLED, Bronze, 90 x 60 x 60cm (35¼ x 23½ x 23½ in.), Executed in 2012. Provenance:, Purchased from Blain Southern, Berlin, December 2012 by Micky Johnson, Tony Cragg is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation, associated with the New British Sculpture movement of the 1980s alongside Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor, and Antony Gormley. Born in Liverpool in 1949, he studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1977, and by the late 1980s had achieved international recognition. In 1988, he represented Britain at the 42nd Venice Biennale and was awarded the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery. Cragg has consistently pushed the boundaries of material and form, employing substances as varied as plastic, wood, stone, and bronze to explore the intersection of natural and industrial grammars. His work is characterised by biomorphic abstraction, that is, forms that appear simultaneously organic and mechanical, suggesting geological growth, molecular structures or futuristic architecture. He was appointed Professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1988-2001) and awarded a CBE in 2002. His sculptures are represented in the collections of the Tate (London), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and the Centre Pompidou (Paris), among others. Indeed, his artistic practice is continually informed by this approach to form as a language in itself. It is evident in the Untitled (2012) bronze offered here, where Cragg deploys the medium's weight and permanence to create a form that appears paradoxically fluid. Rising vertically with a twisting, stratified rhythm, the work evokes both geological layering and the dynamism of a body in motion. The polished surface enhances the play of light across the folds and curves, heightening the sense of movement within mass. As with much of Cragg's mature practice, the work resists a single reading. Instead, it oscillates between the organic and the industrial, suggesting natural evolution while asserting the sculptural autonomy of pure abstraction. Condition Report:, The work is in very good condition. There is one very small nick at the very bottom of one of the sides of the base. Condition Report Disclaimer

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