231 - Robert Adams,

Robert Adams, British 1917-1984 - Square Minus, Opus 307, 1969; chromed steel, signed and dated to the underside 'Adams 1969', H31.5 x W30.3 x D7.2 cm (ARR) Note: from an edition of 3. Provenance: with Gimpel Fils, GF18017 (according to the label attached to the underside) Literature: A. Grieve, 'The Sculpture of Robert Adams', London, 1992, p.226, no.565 (illus.) Note: Adams was one of the most innovative and important artists working in Post-War Britain, developing a distinct abstract language alongside his contemporaries Kenneth Martin and Victor Pasmore. His work was included in the celebrated British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 1952, alongside Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Bernard Meadows, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull, after which critic Herbert Read dubbed the young group's shared aesthetic the 'Geometry of Fear'. Adams's works are now in public collections internationally including the Arts Council Collection, the Tate Gallery, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.