Small Zip

Details

Clive Barker (b. 1940)
Small Zip
signed and dedicated 'CLIVE BARKER/to/Sonny Freeman' (on the reverse)
leather and metal on wood
20 x 11¼ in. (50.8 x 28.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1963.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to Sonny Freeman, and by descent to the present owner.

Literature

A.J. Fermon (ed.), Clive Barker Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné 1958-2000, Milan, 2012, p. 80, no. 13, illustrated.

Exhibited

Cambridge, Arts Council of Great Britain, Arts Council Gallery, Ventures, February - March 1967, no. 2: this exhibition travelled to Oldham, Art Gallery, March - April; Folkestone, Metropole Arts Centre, April - May; Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, May - June; Birmingham, City Art Gallery, June - July; and Portsmouth, Round Tower, July.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Sonny Freeman was a model and close friend of Barker’s, who shot to fame in the 1964 as the first ever Pirelli Calendar girl. Her first husband was The Beatles photographer, Robert Freeman and they lived in the same building as John Lennon and his wife Cynthia. It has been speculated that Lennon wrote The Beatles hit Norwegian Wood about Sonny, who despite being German by birth would tell people she was Norwegian.

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