Robert Adams (British, 1917-1984) Descending Forms bronze relief on wooden mount 29 x 13cm (11 7/16 x 5 1/8in). Conceived in 1954, from an edition of 6 Footnotes: Provenance With Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, where acquired by Basil Taylor, February 1958 Private Collection, U.K. Exhibited Dublin, Victor Waddington Gallery, Robert Adams, 12-22 May 1954, cat.no.21 (another cast) London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Robert Adams and William Gear, February 1956, cat.no.40 (another cast) Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, 15 April-7 May 1961, cat.no.24 (another cast) Venice, British Pavilion, XXXI Biennale, 1962, unnumbered (another cast) Northampton, City Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition, January-July 1971, cat.no.10; this exhibition travelled to Sheffield, March-April, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May and London, Camden Art Centre, June-July (another cast) Literature Alastair Grieve, The Sculpture of Robert Adams, The Henry Moore Foundation, in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1992, p.63 and 170, cat.no.174 (ill.b&w, another cast) 'The movement starts at the top, with a large, upright block, and progresses in a serpentine descent through the less stable, tumbling, blocks to the smallest at the bottom. But the progression from large to small is not regular and the angles of the blocks and the spaces between them vary so that while some touch, others float as isolated units.' (Alastair Grieve, The Sculpture of Robert Adams, The Henry Moore Foundation, in association with Lund Humphries, Much Hadham and Aldershot, 1992, p.61) This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: AR AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing