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The Herald of a New Day
Details
Leon Underwood (1890-1975)
The Herald of a New Day
signed with initials and dated ‘LU 34’ (on the base)
brass mounted on a marble base
30 in. (76 cm.) high, including base
Conceived in 1934 and cast in an edition of 2.
The Herald of a New Day
signed with initials and dated ‘LU 34’ (on the base)
brass mounted on a marble base
30 in. (76 cm.) high, including base
Conceived in 1934 and cast in an edition of 2.
Provenance
Kay Murphy.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 7 November 1990, lot 112.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 7 November 1990, lot 112.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Leon Underwood: A Retrospective Exhibition, Colchester, The Minories, 1969, no. 11, another cast illustrated.
C. Neve, Leon Underwood, London, 1974, p. 151, pl. 107, another cast illustrated.
B. Whitworth, The Sculpture of Leon Underwood, Much Hadham, 2000, pp. 50 & 127, no. 57, pl. 36, another cast illustrated.
J. Wood (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Shine: Sculpture and Surface in the 1920s and 1930s, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2002, pp. 16-17, illustrated.
S. Levy and T. Pirsig-Marshall (ed.), exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2009, pp. 70-71, 217, illustrated.
C. Neve, Leon Underwood, London, 1974, p. 151, pl. 107, another cast illustrated.
B. Whitworth, The Sculpture of Leon Underwood, Much Hadham, 2000, pp. 50 & 127, no. 57, pl. 36, another cast illustrated.
J. Wood (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Shine: Sculpture and Surface in the 1920s and 1930s, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2002, pp. 16-17, illustrated.
S. Levy and T. Pirsig-Marshall (ed.), exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2009, pp. 70-71, 217, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings and Engravings by Leon Underwood, April 1934, no. 9, another cast exhibited.
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, African Madonna: Other Sculpture and Paintings of Mexico by Leon Underwood, November – December 1935, no. 2, another cast exhibited.
London, Royal Institute Galleries, National Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers and Potters, Annual Exhibition VII, February – March 1937, no. 85, another cast exhibited.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Watercolour Drawings and Sculpture: 1919-39, March – August 1942, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
Colchester, The Minories, Leon Underwood: A Retrospective Exhibition, August – September 1969, no. 11, another cast exhibited.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century: Image and Form 1901-1950, September – November 1981, another cast exhibited.
London, Austin Desmond, Pure Plastic Rhythm: Leon Underwood 1890-1975, January – February 1993, no. 44, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Worthing, Museum and Art Gallery, February – March 1993; and Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, April – May 1993.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, Shine: Sculpture and Surface in the 1920s and 1930s, February - May 2002, exhibition not numbered.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, July – November 2009, exhibition not numbered.
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, African Madonna: Other Sculpture and Paintings of Mexico by Leon Underwood, November – December 1935, no. 2, another cast exhibited.
London, Royal Institute Galleries, National Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers and Potters, Annual Exhibition VII, February – March 1937, no. 85, another cast exhibited.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Watercolour Drawings and Sculpture: 1919-39, March – August 1942, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
Colchester, The Minories, Leon Underwood: A Retrospective Exhibition, August – September 1969, no. 11, another cast exhibited.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century: Image and Form 1901-1950, September – November 1981, another cast exhibited.
London, Austin Desmond, Pure Plastic Rhythm: Leon Underwood 1890-1975, January – February 1993, no. 44, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Worthing, Museum and Art Gallery, February – March 1993; and Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, April – May 1993.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, Shine: Sculpture and Surface in the 1920s and 1930s, February - May 2002, exhibition not numbered.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, July – November 2009, exhibition not numbered.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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