LEON UNDERWOOD (1890-1975)
LEON UNDERWOOD (1890-1975)
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LEON UNDERWOOD (1890-1975)

Water-Rhythm

Details
LEON UNDERWOOD (1890-1975)
Water-Rhythm
signed and numbered 'Leon/U. IV/VII' (lower edge)
bronze with a brown patina
18 in. (45.7 cm.) long
Conceived in 1953.
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner circa 1973.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, New York, N.M. Acquavella Galleries, 1962, n.p., no. 3, another cast illustrated.
C. Neve, Leon Underwood, London, 1974, pp. 198-199, p. 199, pl. 156, incorrectly titled 'Hill Rhythm', another cast illustrated.
B. Whitworth, The Sculpture of Leon Underwood, Much Hadham, 2000, pp. 115, 136, no. 151, fig. 97, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Leon Underwood, May - June 1953, no. 31, another cast exhibited.
London, Zwemmer Art Gallery, Sculpture and Drawings: Henry Moore, Marino Marini, Barbara Hepworth, F. E. McWilliam, Epstein, Leon Underwood, June 1957, catalogue not traced.
London, Kaplan Gallery, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, March 1961, no. 6, another cast exhibited.
New York, N.M. Acquavella Galleries, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, October - November 1962, no. 3, another cast exhibited.
London, Kaplan Gallery, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, April - May 1963, no. 33, another cast exhibited.
Colchester, The Minories, Leon Underwood: A Retrospective Exhibition, August 1969, no. 42, another cast exhibited.
London, Archer Gallery, Leon Underwood, Michael Aram and Georges Brunon, October - November 1969, no. 14, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
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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Lot Essay

The present work relates closely to a unique bronze titled Hill-Rhythm (Reclining figure), 1952 and Water-Rhythm - Variation, 1953. Ben Whitworth refers to the 'strings' of bronze representing the flow of water' (B. Whitworth, The Sculpture of Leon Underwood, Much Hadham, 2000, p. 136).

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