Made in Britain
Made in Britain
Leon Underwood
Flux (The runner)
Lot Closed
September 23, 11:11 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Leon Underwood
1890 - 1975
Flux (The Runner)
signed Leon U., dated 29. and numbered V/VII (on the back of the thigh)
bronze on a wooden base
height (including base): 55cm.; 21½in.
length: 55cm.; 21¾in.
Conceived in 1924 and cast in 1929, the present work is number 5 from a mixed bronze and brass edition of 7.
We are grateful to Ben Whitworth for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Acquired from the Artist’s widow by the father of the present owner in the 1970s, and thence by family decent
Christopher Neve, Leon Underwood, Thames and Hudson, London, 1974, pp. 145-7 and 200, no. 102, illustrated p. 146 (another cast)
Ben Whitworth, The Sculpture of Leon Underwood, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 2000, pp. 31, 34, 39, 42, 65, 115, 123, no. 24, illustrated pl. 1, p. 65 (another cast)