Leaf Pool by Caro Anthony (3 results)

Art installation. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Large fold-out Anthony Caro / David Pelham sculpture, issued in an edition of 500 copies (each of which is signed by Anthony Caro). Clean and Near Fine in its slate-gray boards, which, when unfolded, somewhat resemble a large, colorful pop-up. The multi-piece pop-up can then either be hung on one's wall or can comfortably rest, folded back up, in the publisher's matching slate-gray slipcase. Certainly more of an art installation than a conventional book. "A wall-mounted card sculpture".

Edition of 500. Signed and numbered in silver ink on the base of the sculpture by Caro. Quarto. This is a collaboration between the sculptor and award-winning designer and paper-engineer David Pelham with the book opening up into a wall mounted card sculpture (29.8 x 64.5 x 8.9 cm). It may be locked open and hung on a wall, displayed flat or kept as a book on a bookshelf. Original dark grey boards, titles to front cover in white. Housed in the heavy duty slipcase with locking device, titles to front cover and spine in white. A few trivial smudges, else near-fine.

Wall mounted card sculpture, 2000, signed and numbered from the edition of 500, published by Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 30 x 60 x 9 cm. (11.8 x 23.6 x 3.5 in.) Lauded as the greatest sculptor of his generation Sir Anthony Caro (1924-2013) worked with Henry Moore at the outset of his career, and was known for his abstract work characterised by assemblages of 'found' industrial objects.