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Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885 - 1934)
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Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885 - 1934)
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Height – 14.5cm x Width – 25.5cm
Charles Sargeant Jagger was born in Kilnhurst near Sheffield in 1885.
In 1908 he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal College of
Art where he studied sculpture and modelling until 1911. He served in
the First World War in the Dardenelles and on the Western Front and was
wounded three times, the last time seriously. In 1918 and he was made
an Official British War Artist for the Ministry of Information.
Following the war, he undertook numerous war memorial commissions of
which the most famous is the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park
Corner (1925).
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British sculptor. He was a highly regarded student at the Royal College of Art, London (1908’11), whose early sculpture showed a fanciful treatment of classical and literary themes. In 1914 he gave up the Prix de Rome to enlist in the army. He began work on No Man’s Land (1919’20; London, Tate) while still convalescing from war wounds. This low relief presents a stark vision of trench warfare. Corpses stranded on barbed wire are ranged across a ravaged landscape, while the solitary live figure of the look-out in the foreground, a surrogate for the spectator, uses them for cover. Jagger attempted to maintain such realism in commissioned war memorials, most successfully in the Royal Artillery memorial (1921’5; London, Hyde Park Corner; see Monument, public, fig. 4). His obsessive concern for detail, shared by the regimental committee who commissioned the work, reached its zenith in the stone replica of a howitzer, which surmounts his vivid representation of war as hard and dangerous labour. Although he remained in demand as a sculptor of monuments, it is for his war memorials that he is chiefly remembered. He received a Military Cross in World War I and was made an ARA in 1926.
Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885 - 1934)
£18,000.00