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Sculptor Anthony Caro dies after a heart attack

October 24, 2013 12:16
Anthony Caro with one of his sculptures (Photo: EPA/Kai Foersterling)

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The world-renowed Jewish sculptor Sir Anthony Caro has died after suffering a heart attack. He was 89.

Born in Surrey in 1924, he attended Charterhouse School and Cambridge before training at the Royal Academy schools. It was there that he met his wife, the artist Sheila Girling, in 1949.

He was an assistant to Henry Moore, and taught at Central St Martins School of Art between 1953 and 1981. Though Caro is usually a Sephardi name, in fact Sir Anthony's great-grandfather was a rabbi who came from Poland.

He first gained fame as an artist in the early 1960s, sculpting in clay and casting in bronze. His works later became purely abstract, prompting critics to describe them as not sculpture at all.