ID 1176650
Lot 185 | CHARLES SARGEANT JAGGER, A.R.A. (1885-1934)
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
Scandal
signed 'C.S. JAGGER A.R.A.' (at the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina, relief, mounted in a frame
63 ¼ x 56 ¼ in. (160.5 x 142.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1930.
Cast in an edition of 2, this cast by John Galizia Foundry in 1939.
Provenance
Evelyn Clarke, the artist's wife, and by descent to Gillian Jagger.
Her sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 July 2007, lot 308.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Royal Academy Illustrated, London, 1932, p. 116, as 'School for Scandal', another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, The Charles Sargeant Jagger Memorial Exhibition, London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, 1935, pp. iv, 9, no. 27, another cast illustrated.
A. Compton (ed.), War and Peace Sculpture, London, 1985, p. 43, pl. 36, another cast illustrated.
A. Compton, The Sculpture of Charles Sargeant Jagger, Much Hadham, 2004, pp. 76, 78, 128, no. 80, figs. 62, 65, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1932, no. 1417, as 'School for Scandal', another cast exhibited.
London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, The Charles Sargeant Jagger Memorial Exhibition, May - June 1935, no. 27, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Birmingham; Liverpool; Sheffield; Lincoln; Wakefield; Halifax; Dunfermline; Rochdale; Perth; Hull; Dorchester; and Stockport.
Further details
We are very grateful to Ann Compton for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.
| Artist: | Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885 - 1934) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Israel, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Artist: | Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885 - 1934) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Israel, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Address of auction |
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