People in a wind
(1950)
Medium
bronze
Measurements
(64.3 × 41.6 × 27.2 cm)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1963
© the Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Kenneth Armitage recalled: ‘One day in London, looking out of the window on a very windy day I saw a woman walking, holding two children, all three leaning against the wind, and this gave me an idea: I started making tiny maquettes with, I think, three figures with long necks and they had a little bunch of arms in the front, extended forwards with hands’. Inspired, he began a series of linked-figure sculptures modelled from wire, mesh and plaster, from which his most important work, People in a wind, later emerged. When this bronze was exhibited at the 1952 Venice Biennale, Armitage became a sudden celebrity.
Artwork Details
Inscription
(cast in base: K A No. II)
Accession Number
527-D5
Department
International Sculpture
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Provenance
The artist, through Marlborough Gallery, London, 1962.