Early One Morning (1962)

Anthony Alfred Caro

steel and aluminium, painted red

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Sculpture

Materials:

Steel, Aluminium

Dimensions:

289.6 x 619.8 x 335.3 cm

Accession Number:

T00805

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1965

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Committee

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist through Kasmin Gallery Ltd, London at the British Sculpture in the Sixties exhibition organised by the Contemporary Art Society at the Tate Gallery, 1965; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1965

Relationship:

Kasmin Gallery Ltd, London Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Anthony Caro’s steel and aluminium Early One Morning (1962) was purchased through Kasmin Ltd by the Contemporary Art Society at its British Sculpture in the Sixties exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1965 - having already been shown at his solo show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in autumn of 1963. According to the artist this abstract painted metal piece relates to Matisse's painting The Window (1916) in the Detroit Institute of Arts, USA which Caro probably saw an image of in Alfred's Barr seminal 1951 monograph. The rhythmic sculpture with its various planes and lines can be experienced from all viewpoints. It was originally painted green but it was the artist’s wife who suggested Caro paint it red after it had been assembled in the garage and taken out into their garden.

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