Lot 310: Charles Sargeant Jagger , Britannia Bronze, Wood

signed bronze with dark brown patina, on a wooden base

height (excluding base): 49cm.; 19¼in.

London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition , May 1933, no.1589;
London, The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, Charles Sargeant Jagger Memorial Exhibition , War and Peace Sculpture , 21 May - 20 June 1935, no.52, for sale at 50 gns, touring to Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Lincoln, Wakefield, Halifax, Dunfermline, Rochdale, Perth, Hull, Doncaster, and Stockport.

Ann Compton,The Sculpture of Charles Sargeant Jagger, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Hertfordshire, 2004, no.85, p.129.

Conceived 1931-33, the present work is a unique cast (1937) of the working model for the monumental Portland stone figure for Thames House, Grosvenor Road.