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Charles Sargeant Jagger MC, ARA (1885-1934) No Man's Land Signed C.Sargeant Jagger Sc (lower right) Bronze relief with brown patina on an oak mount, conceived 1918-1919, probably from an edition of seven cast in 1935 16.6 x 49.1cm (excluding mount) Literature: Charles Sargeant Jagger "How to do it" Series 5. Modelling and Sculpture in the Making, (Herbert Reiach Ltd., London, 1935), detail illustrated p.49 (another cast); Ann Compton, The Sculpture of Charles Sargeant Jagger (The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Hertfordshire, 2004), no.22, illustrated p.30 (another cast) Exhibited: London, The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, Charles Sargeant Jagger Memorial Exhibition, War and Peace Sculpture, 21 May - 20 June 1935, no.7, illustrated in the catalogue, for sale at 18 gns, touring to Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Lincoln, Wakefield, Halifax, Dunfermline, Rochdale, Perth, Hull, Doncaster and Stockport (another cast); London, Imperial War Museum, Charles Sargeant Jagger War and Peace Sculpture Centenary Exhibition 1885 - 1985, 1 May-29 September 1985, (another cast); Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Charles Sargeant Jagger 19 October- 30 November 1985, no.28 (another cast). Charles Sargeant Jagger was a sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, was renowned for his depictions of ordinary soldiers. He first began work on No Man's Land in 1918, when recovering from a serious wound. The final, full sized version is in the Tate's collections, and was described by John Singer Sargent as 'The best thing I have seen so far by any artist of the War'. The work, based on Jagger's own experiences, shows a listening post in No Man's Land, where a soldier hides amongst the bodies of his dead comrades in order to listen to the enemy near by. We are grateful to Ann Compton for her assistance in cataloguing the present work. Read more »