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Born in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Tony Carter (1943-2016) was a talented and committed sculptor who was part of the New British Sculpture movement of the 1970s and 1980s. ‘By Bread Only’ takes the form of a painter’s easel with board. Hanging from the board is a metal saucepan, inside of which is etched the head of an angel, a motif Carter borrowed from a Leonardo da Vinci drawing. Spot-lit from above, the pan throws a wing-shaped glow over the white board.

‘By Bread Only’ occupied a fascinating place within the emerging ‘New British Sculpture’ in the early 1980s. The work was reproduced at the end of the catalogue for the British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century survey exhibition, curated by Nicholas Serota and Sandy Nairne, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1981. A year later it concluded the art critic Michael Newman’s championing of the ‘New British Sculpture’ in his Art in America article, called ‘New Sculpture in Britain’. Newman’s article launched a generation of artists - including Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Bill Woodrow, Anish Kapoor, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Kate Blacker, Alison Wilding, Anthony Gormley and Shirazeh Houshiary - onto the North American and international scene.