Anthony Caro "As You Are Number 24" Paper Sculpture

This sculpture was created by Sir Anthony Alfred Caro. He was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using ‘found’ and industrial objects. He began as a member of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He is lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation. In 1969 he began showing at the Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York. Caro often worked in steel, but also in a diverse range of other materials, including bronze, silver, lead, stoneware, wood and paper. In 1981 he started his collaboratiom with the world renouned Tyler Graphics to create a series of sculptures in handmade paper, mostly wall reliefs. Major exhibitions include retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975), the Trajan Markets, Rome (1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1995), Tate Britain, London (2005), and three museums in Pas-de-Calais, France (2008), to accompany the opening of his Chapel of Light at Bourbourg. He has been awarded many prizes, including the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997. He holds many honorary degrees from universities in the UK, USA and Europe. He was knighted in 1987 and received the Order of Merit in May 2000. This sculpture retains it’s original lucite case. The sculpture is in excellent condition.