Phillip King P.R.A. (British, 1934-2021)

Phillip King P.R.A. (British, 1934-2021)
Three plaster figures
Woman
plaster
28 cm. (11 in.) high

Standing Figure
plaster
26 cm. (10 1/4 in.) high

Standing Figure
23 cm. (9 in.) high
All executed in 1958
(3)

Please note all three works are accompanied with signed paperwork from the artist

Provenance
The artist, 2009, from whom acquired by the present owner

Literature
Woman
Franck Gautherot, Michael Gauthier, Clarrie Wallis, Phillip King, les presses du réel, Dijon, 2016, p.96 (ill.b&w. fig.4)

Phillip King was born in 1934, in Tunisia and arrived in the UK at the end of the Second World War. King studied at St Martin's prior to working as Henry Moore's assistant in 1964.
He became Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London in 1990 until he was voted the President in 1999. He is known as one of Anthony Caro's best students, despite the fact the two were near contemporaries. The two exhibited together in a seminal 1966 exhibition Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum, New York.