Leon Underwood (1890-1975)

Water-rhythm

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Leon Underwood (1890-1975)
Water-rhythm
signed, numbered and dated '53/Leon U/V/VII' (lower from edge)
bronze with a dark brown patina
20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) long

with N.M. Acquavella Galleries, New York, where purchased by the present owner's parents in November 1962.

London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Leon Underwood, May - June 1953, no. 31, another cast exhibited.
London, Zwemmer Art Gallery, Sculpture and Drawings: Henry Moore, Marino Marini, Barbara Hepworth, F. E. McWilliam, Epstein, Leon Underwood, June 1957, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
London, Kaplan Gallery, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, March 1961, no. 6, another cast exhibited.
New York, N.M. Acquavella Galleries, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, October - November 1962, no. 3.
London, Royal Academy, 1966, no. 1465, another cast exhibited.
Colchester, The Minories, Leon Underwood: A Retrospective Exhibition, August - September 1969, no. 42, another cast exhibited.
London, Archer Gallery, Leon Underwood, Michael Aram and Georges Brunon, October - November 1969, no. 14, another cast exhibited.

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Sometimes referred to as Water-rhythm - Variation, the present work relates closely to a unique bronze titled Hill-rhythm (Reclining figure), 1952. Ben Whitworth refers to the 'strings' of bronze representing the flow of water' (op. cit., p. 136).

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