Charles Sargeant Jagger

Halifax, Bankfield Museum, The Art of the Jagger Family, 26 August-23 September 1939-40, no.4, touring to Burton, Darlington,  Lincoln, Rotherham, and Sunderland;
London, Imperial War Museum, Charles Sargeant Jagger War and Peace Sculpture Centenary Exhibition 1885-1985, 1 May- 29 September 1985;
Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Charles Sargeant Jagger, 19 October-30 November 1985, no.39.

 

Ann Compton, The Sculpture of Charles Sargeant Jagger, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Hertfordshire, 2004, no.70, p.125.

In excellent original and clean condition. Held on a simple wood base.
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Conceived in 1928-9, the present work is a unique cast of the working model of the monumental Portland stone figure for Imperial Chemical House, Millbank, cast in 1935.

Both this work and the maquette for Chemistry mark Jagger's re-engagement with the theme of the heroic worker figure, and the very different characteristics of each discipline are handled with great skill. As shipping from around the world passes back and forth beneath his feet, the powerful figure of the stevedore who sits astride the globe is a truly imperial image.