Leon Underwood

Sale, Sotheby's London, 4th November 1959, lot 75
Sale, Christie's London, 28th March 1996, lot 245, where acquired by the present owner

London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Leon Underwood, 11th May-24th June 1953, cat. no.28, as ...So Also Shall He Reap (another cast);
London, Zwemmer Gallery, Sculpture and Drawings: Henry Moore, Mariano Marini, Barbara Hepworth, F.E.McWilliam, Epstein, Leon Underwood, 4th-29th June 1957 (another cast);
New York, Kaplan Gallery, An Exhibition of Sculpture by Leon Underwood, opened 2nd March 1961, cat. no.12 (another cast);
New York, Acquavella Gallery, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, 16th October-17th November 1962, cat. no.11 (another cast);
London, Kaplan Gallery, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, 24th April-18th May 1963, cat. no.35 (another cast);
Colchester, Minories, Leon Underwood: A Retrospective Exhibition, 9th August-10th September 1969, cat. no.30 (another cast);
London, Archer Gallery, Leon Underwood, Michael Aram and Georges Brunon, 30th October-29th November 1969, cat. no.64 (another cast).

Ben Whitworth, The Sculpture of Leon Underwood, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, 2000, cat. no.137, illustrated p.135 (another cast).

The work has been cast in two parts, the figure and the bronze base on which it stands. Dirt has gathered in some of the crevices and there is a tiny spot of verdigris to the figure's arm. There are a few tiny areas where the patina has worn slightly, including on the upper half of the figure's right arm. Otherwise the sculpture is in good overall condition. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work
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We are grateful to Ben Whitworth for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.