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RSS FeedsExtremely rare Leighton bronze in Bonhas new Important Design sale
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26 march 2017 03:40:16

 
Extremely rare Leighton bronze in Bonhas new Important Design sale
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An Athlete struggling with a Python, an important and striking bronze statue by Frederic, Lord Leighton, is one of the leading pieces to be offered in Bonhams inaugural Important Design Sale in London on Wednesday 5 April. It is estimated at £50,000-80,000. This very rare piece by the pioneer of the late 19th century British sculpture movement known as New Sculpture, is a bronze reduction of the full scale work dated 1877 and now in Tate Britain in London. It was considered at the time to mark a renaissance in British sculpture. Smaller versions of well-known sculptures were often commissioned by wealthy patrons as status symbols but, in the words of the Head of Bonhams Works of Art and Sculpture, Michael Lake, “This is an extremely rare reduction. In all my years of looking at Leighton’s works I have never seen another.” The sculpture was acquired at a Country House auction in 1934 for fifty-seven shillings and 17 pe


 
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