Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle (Berlin, Germany): Objects of Wonder
- Artist
- Sir Anthony Caro 1924–2013
- Medium
- Painted steel
- Dimensions
- Object: 1791 x 1981 x 3975 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1965
- Reference
- T00799
Display caption
Caro began to work in steel following a trip to America in 1959, often using pre-formed industrial sections such as girders and joists. In the mid Sixties he used steel, cut and sprayed with colour, in balanced constructions of planes and beams directly on the floor, bolted and welded together. The appearance of any Caro sculpture changes radically as one walks around it.
Gallery label, August 2004
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Catalogue entry
Sir Anthony Caro b. 1924
T00799 Yellow Swing 1965
Not inscribed.
Painted steel, 70½ x 78 x 156½ (179 x 198 x 397.5).
Purchased from the artist through Kasmin Ltd. (Grant-in- Aid) 1965.
Exh: Kasmin Ltd., October-November 1965 (unnumbered, repr. in colour on invitation card.); Venice Biennale, 1966 (British Pavilion 38, repr. in colour in illustrated catalogue).
Repr: Art and Artists, I, June 1966, p. 24 in colour; Art International, X, Summer 1966, p. 84.
See the note on No. T00805.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1965–1966, London 1967.
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