NEEDLESS ALARMS

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FREDERIC, LORD LEIGHTON, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Needless Alarms
bronze with dark green patination, modelled as a naked girl with a frog at her feet, on turned oak base
21½in. (54.6cm.) high overall

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Lot Essay

Joanna Barnes Fine Arts ed., exhibition catalogue, Leighton and his sculptural legacy: British sculpture 1875-1930, London, 1996, pp. 51-52, no. 22. (similar example illustrated); B. Read ed., exhibition catalogue, Lord Leighton - Eminent Victorian Artist, London, 1996, p. 83 (similar example illustrated); R. Beresford ed., exhibition catalogue, Pre-Raphaelites and the Olympians: selected works of Victorian Art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Collections, Sydney, 2001, p. 59 (similar example illustrated)

Leighton exhibited Needless Alarms at the Royal Academy with The Sluggard in 1886.

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