The raw materials came from the scrapyards at Canning Town near the docks.Īfter the large sections of welded steel had been bolted to one another the final ensemble was painted with ordinary gloss household paint, a mixture of Valspar Dark Oak and Valspar Black. Jim Sherriff gave Caro some help in the gas welding. He used a gas cutter and gas welder, to help him with the construction (he had no electric arc welder). It was made in the artist's garage at his home, 111 Frognal, Hampstead. I worked on it alone and was not working on other pieces concurrently’. Caro wrote ‘I do not remember exactly how long it took to make. The sculpture was finished in March 1960. ‘Twenty-Four Hours’ was Caro's first finished welded steel sculpture and his first fully abstract work: he explains ‘I started working in steel around 1 January 1960 and made two or three steel pieces which I destroyed before making “Twenty-Four Hours”’. 56–8 Richard Whelan, Anthony Caro, 1974, pp. 1, 1961, p.1 Charles Harrison, ‘London Commentary: Anthony Caro's Retrospective Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery’ in Studio International, CLXXVII, 1969, pp.130–1 Phyllis Tuchman, ‘An Interview with Anthony Caro’ in Artforum, X, June 1972, pp. Lit: Lawrence Alloway, ‘An Interview with Anthony Caro’ in Gazette, No. repr.) Anthony Caro, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, February–March 1965 (1) New British Painting and Sculpture, organised by the Whitechapel Art Gallery for UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, and tour, 1963, (repr.) Anthony Caro, Hayward Gallery, January–March 1969 (4, repr. Purchased from Mr and Mrs Clement Greenberg through Aquavella Contemporary Art, New York (Grant-in-Aid) 1975Ĭoll: Bought by Clement Greenberg from the artist c.Įxh: Anthony Caro, Whitechapel Art Gallery, September–October 1963 (1.
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