Port Pusher

Details

Barry Flanagan, R.A. (1941-2009)
Port Pusher
signed with monogram and numbered '5/9' (on the stem of the boat)
bronze with a black patina
25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide
Conceived in 1990.

Provenance

with John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, where purchased by the present owners in February 1994.

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. These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

Brought to you by

Pippa Jacomb

pjacomb@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2293

Lot Essay

We are very grateful to Jo Melvin from the Barry Flanagan estate for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

'Thematically the choice of the hare is really quite a rich and expressive sort of model... 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 attributes of a human being'

(Barry Flanagan quoted in exhibition catalogue, Barry Flanagan. Sculpture and Drawing, Recklinghausen, 2002, p. 31)

More from Modern British Art Day Sale

View All