Leon Underwood
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Bronze Cat Sculpture
Signed and inscribed Leon U./37. (on the rear left leg); from an edition of 3
patinated bronze
height 7 1/2 in. (19.05 cm.); length 19 3/4 in. (50.16 cm.); width 5 1/2 in. (13.97 cm.)
Footnotes
Provenance
Christie's, London, 20th Century British Art, 12 December 2008, Lot 136;
Acquired by the current owner from the above.
Exhibited
Leon Underwood: An Exhibition of Color Block Prints, Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Zwemmer Gallery, London, June 1939.
Caticons: The Cat in Art. SFO Museum, SFO International Airport, International Terminal Pre-Security, San Francisco, 21 July 2018 - 21 April 2019.
Literature
Whitworth, Ben. The Sculpture of Leon Underwood, Aldershot, 2000, no. 128, p. 134.
Lerner, Sandy. Caticons: 4,000 Years of Art Imitating Cats, Ayrshire House Publishing, 2017, p. 122, illustrated.