Post War & Contemporary Art 
10 November 2021
Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Barry Flanagan 1941–2009

Hare with Broken Vase

1995
cast bronze 27½ h × 16¼ dia in (70 × 41 cm)
estimate: $50,000–70,000
result: $37,500
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Impressed signature, number and foundry mark to base 'BF 8/8 AB London'. This work is number 8 from the edition of 8 cast by the AB Fine Art Foundry, London.
provenance: Waddington Custot, London | Private Collection, California

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

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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.

Barry Flanagan: The Hare is Metaphor from Kasmin Gallery on Vimeo.

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