Sale 7637
London
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12 December 2008
Price realised
GBP 20,000
Estimate
Leon Underwood (1890-1975) Cat signed with an initial and dated 'Leon U/37' (on the back left leg) bronze with a brown patina 20 in. (50.8 cm.) long Cast in an edition of 3.
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Literature
B. Whitworth, The Sculpture of Leon Underwood, Aldershot, 2000, p. 134, no. 128.
Exhibited
London, Zwemmer Gallery, Leon Underwood: An Exhibition of Colour Block Prints, Oil Paintings and Sculpture, June 1939, another cast exhibited.
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