Barry Flanagan, R.A.

Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by Lord & Lady Attenborough, 26th July 1993

The sculpture appears sound. There is some light surface dirt in places and some minor rubbing to the edges of the base. Subject to the above, the work appears to be in excellent overall condition. The work is attached to an integral bronze base with one bolt. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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We are grateful to the Artist’s Estate for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

'Thematically the choice of the hare is quite a rich and expressive sort of model; the conventions of the cartoon and the investment of human attributes into the animal world is a very well practiced device, in literature and film etc., and is really quite poignant. And on a practical level, if you consider what conveys situation and meaning and feeling in a human figure, the range of expression is in fact far more limited than the device of investing an animal - a hare especially - with the expressive attributes of a human being. The ears, for instance, are really able to convey far more than a squint in an eye of a figure, or grimace on the face of a model.' (The Artist, interview with Judith Bumpus, quoted in Barry Flanagan: Prints 1970-1983 (exh. cat.), Tate, London, 1986, p.15).