Lot 47: Charles Sargeant Jagger, A.R.A. (1885-1934)

Charles Sargeant Jagger, A.R.A. (1885-1934)
Maquette for Artillery Captain, Royal Artillery Memorial, 1921-25
signed 'Sargeant Jagger' (on the side of the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
18½ in. (47 cm.) high, excluding black painted wooden base
Conceived in 1921-25 and cast in an edition of 2 in 1935.

London, The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, Charles Sargeant Jagger Memorial Exhibition, War and Peace Sculpture, May - June 1935, no. 36 as 'Officer on Artillery Monument', probably another cast: this exhibition travelled to Birmingham; Liverpool; Sheffield; Lincoln; Wakefield; Halifax; Dunfermline; Rochdale; Perth; Hull; Doncaster; and Stockport.
London, Imperial War Museum, Charles Sargeant Jagger War and Peace Sculpture Centenary Exhibition 1885-1985, May - September 1985, no. 34, probably another cast: this exhibition travelled to Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, October 1985 - November 1986.

A. Compton, The Sculpture of Charles Sargeant Jagger, Aldershot, 2004, p. 117, no. 44.

Gillian Jagger; Sotheby's, London, 13 July 2007, lot 301, where purchased by the present owner.

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The full-size bronze figure of the Artillery Captain is situated on the south side of The Royal Artillery Memorial at London's Hyde Park Corner, along with the bronze figures of the Shell Carrier, the Driver and Recumbent figure, also conceived by Jagger between 1921 and 1925. The Memorial, which was a hugely important collaboration between Jagger and the architect Lionel Pearson was unveiled on 18 October 1925, after Jagger had been working on it for four years: it has become recognised as Jagger's masterpiece.

The world auction record for the Jagger's work at auction is held by Christie's, London for Maquette for The Driver, Royal Artillery Memorial, 1921-1925, sold at Christie's, London, 9 June 2006 for £422,400.