Austin / Desmond Fine Art
Barry Flanagan

Barry Flanagan (1941 - 2009)

Tantric Figures, 1973

Beer stone, acrylic medium
Inscribed with artist's monogram and date '73' on underside
33 x 19 x 14 cm

Provenance
E. J. Power, London
Private Collection, London (by descent)

Exhibition
Barry Flanagan, Stone and Bronze Sculptures, British Council Exhibition, British Pavillion, XXXX Venice Biennale, 13 June - 12 September 1982, catalogue no. 2(not repro)
La Biennale di Venezia, Visual Arts General Catalogue, 1982, p.120, no 2 (not repro), touring to:
Museu Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany, 10 Octoer - 12 December 1982
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 7 January - 20 February 1983
Barry Flanagan: Hare Coursed, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Nr. Salisbury, Wiltshire, 16 May - 6 September 2009
Barry Flanagan: Works 1966-2008, Waddington Galleries, London, 17 March - 17 April 2010, catalogue no. 3 (repro. in colour pp. 22 &[23])
The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 900s to the 1970s, Iriish Museum of Modern Art, Dublic, 20 OCtober 2010 - 13 February 2011

Literature
Barry Flanagan: Sculptures in stone 1973 - 1979, Catherine Lampert, Waddington Galleries, London, 1980 (repro. in b&w p.6)
documenta 7: Kassel, vol. 1 Paul Dierichs, Kassell, 1982 (repro in b&w p. 197)
A Developing Pratice, Michael Compton, in Barry Flanagan: Sculpture, The British Council, London, 1982, pp. 17-28 (repro in b&w p. 40); published to accompany the exhibition 'Barry Flanagan, Stone and Bronze Sculptures', held in the British Pavillion at the XXXX Venice Biennale (reprinted in Barry Flanagan: Recent Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, Pace Gallery Publications, New York, 1983)
Introduction, Elizabeth Knowles, in Barry Flanagan: prints 1970-1983, Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1986, pp. 9 -12 (repro. in b&w p. 10)
Barry Flanagan: "Twice as Hard in a Negative Way", Graham Beal, in A Quiert Revolution: British Sculpture Since 1965, Terry A. Neff (ed.), Thames and Hudson, London ,1987, pp.92 - 96 (repro in b&w p. [101], plate no. 510000)
Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965-2005, exhibition catalogue, Enrique Juncosa (ed.) and Barbara Dawson, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin / Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2006 (repro. in b&w p. 26 (not exhibited)

Tantric Figures

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