Barry FLANAGAN
(1941 – 2009)
Irish-Welsh sculptor who is best known for his bronze statues of hares | 1941 born in Prestatyn, North Wales | 1957-58 studies at “Birmingham College of Art and Crafts” | 1964 studies at “St. Martin’s School of Art” in London | 1967-71 lectures at St. Martin’s School of Art and the “Central School of Arts and Crafts” | 1972 participant Documenta 5 in Kassel | 1982 represents Britain at Biennale di Venezia | 2000~ lives in Dublin and becomes Irish citizen | 2009 died in Ibiza, Spain | 2011 “Tate Britain” (“National Gallery of British Art”) helds a retrospective show Early Works 1965–1982 | 2012 exhibition held by Sotheby’s, shows fifteen of Flanagan’s works
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