105: BARRY FLANAGAN, Leaping Hare < Post War & Contemporary Art, 10 November 2021 < Auctions

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10 November 2021

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Barry Flanagan 1941–2009
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Leaping Hare

2009 / 2010
cast bronze 4½ h × 13½ w × 4 d in (11 × 34 × 10 cm)

estimate: $10,000–15,000

result: $27,500

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Incised signature to underside 'BF'. This work is number 1 from the edition of 4.
provenance: Waddington Custot, London | Private Collection, California

This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

Flanagan considered that sculpture could be silent, sculpture could be about sound, sculpture could be about the absence of sound, sculpture could be soft, sculpture could be performance.

Jo Melvin
Director, Barry Flanagan Estate

The Wild Hare of Barry Flanagan

As a central motif for OBE award-winning Irish-Welsh artist Barry Flanagan (1941—2009), the hare provided means for unbounded inquiry into material, motion, and metaphor.