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  • Leslie Thornton,  Untitled;
    Dec. 10, 2025

    Leslie Thornton,  Untitled;

    Est: £250 - £300

    Leslie Thornton,  British 1925-2016 -  Untitled; coloured pencil, 25.5 x 35.5 cm (unframed) (ARR) Provenance:  the Artist;  with Gimpel Fils, London, no.GF10571 (according to the label attached to the packaging) 

    Roseberys
  • Leslie Thornton,  Untitled;
    Dec. 10, 2025

    Leslie Thornton,  Untitled;

    Est: £250 - £300

    Leslie Thornton,  British 1925-2016 -  Untitled; coloured pencil, 25.5 x 35.5 cm (unframed) (ARR) Provenance:  the Artist;  with Gimpel Fils, London

    Roseberys
  • § LESLIE THORNTON (BRITISH 1925-2016)
    Oct. 31, 2025

    § LESLIE THORNTON (BRITISH 1925-2016)

    Est: £4,000 - £6,000

    LESLIE THORNTON (BRITISH 1925-2016) STANDING FIGURE c.1960-61 signed with artist's monogram (to base), welded bronze  56cm high (22in high) Mrs C. Abrahams Curiel;Her sale, Rosebery's, London, where acquired by the present owner, 7 December 2023, lot 356.

    Lyon & Turnbull
  • Leslie Thornton,  Untitled
    Sep. 09, 2025

    Leslie Thornton,  Untitled

    Est: £400 - £600

    Leslie Thornton,  British 1925-2016 -  Untitled; coloured pencil, 25.5 x 35.5 cm (unframed) (ARR) Provenance:  the Artist;  with Gimpel Fils, London, no.GF10571 (according to the label attached to the packaging) 

    Roseberys
  • Leslie Thornton,  Untitled
    Sep. 09, 2025

    Leslie Thornton,  Untitled

    Est: £400 - £600

    Leslie Thornton,  British 1925-2016 -  Untitled; coloured pencil, 25.5 x 35.5 cm (unframed) (ARR) Provenance:  the Artist;  with Gimpel Fils, London

    Roseberys
  • Leslie Thornton,  Fall of Pompeii, c.1955-63 
    Jun. 03, 2025

    Leslie Thornton,  Fall of Pompeii, c.1955-63 

    Est: £8,000 - £12,000

    Leslie Thornton,  British 1925-2016 -  Fall of Pompeii, c.1955-63;  bronze, unique, H151 x W52 x D38 cm (ARR)  Provenance:  private collection, purchased directly from the artist and thence by descent  Note:  with thanks to the Estate of the Artist for their assistance with the cataloguing of this work.  Thornton was part of a seminal group of Post-War sculptors in Britain, who combined Archaic and industrial forms to create a highly evocative visual language, that responded to the complexities of the age. Thornton exhibited alongside these artists, including Eduardo Paolozzi, Kenneth Armitage and Elizabeth Frink, at important exhibitions such as 'New Sculptors Exhibition' in 1955 at the ICA and the international travelling show 'Young British Sculptors' organised by the British Council.  The present work features the vertical emphasis common to much of his work, such as 'Figure in a Setting, 1964' now in the Arts Council Collection, and evokes a modern evocation of the biblical Tower of Babylon in its monumentality. Through the suggestion of Pompeii in its title, Thornton perhaps reflects a post-nuclear sense of a civilisation under threat by uncontrollable forces. The composition of the work relates to the artist's commission for the Daily Mirror building created in 1961, that was based on the theme of the history of printing.  Works by the artist are in international collections, including the National Galleries of Scotland, Leeds Art Gallery and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice. 

    Roseberys
  • § LESLIE THORNTON (BRITISH 1925-2016)
    Nov. 01, 2024

    § LESLIE THORNTON (BRITISH 1925-2016)

    Est: £400 - £600

    LESLIE THORNTON (BRITISH 1925-2016) CANDELABRA IN WELDED BRONZE, 1958 signed and dated (lower right), titled and inscribed (to reverse), pen and watercolour on card 52cm x 64cm (20 ½in x 25 1/8in), unframed The Artist;Gimpel Fils, London.

    Lyon & Turnbull
  • Leslie Thornton, 
    Jun. 11, 2024

    Leslie Thornton, 

    Est: £400 - £600

    Leslie Thornton,  British 1925-2016 -  Untitled; ink and charcoal on paper, signed in pencil lower right 'Leslie Thornton', 51.2 x 41 cm (unframed) (ARR)   Provenance:  with Gimpel Fils, London, GF10557 (according to the label attached to the plastic folder) 

    Roseberys
  • § Leslie Thornton (British 1925-2016) Argosy, 1969-70
    Apr. 28, 2023

    § Leslie Thornton (British 1925-2016) Argosy, 1969-70

    Est: £700 - £900

    § Leslie Thornton (British 1925-2016) Argosy, 1969-70 the larger element stamped with signature, dated 1970 and numbered G7; the smaller element stamped with initials, dated 69 and numbered G, acrylic and aluminium (66cm high (26in high)) Provenance Los Angeles Modern Auctions, 30 September 2018, lot 43; Sotheby's, London, 10 September 2019, lot 37 where acquired by the present owner.

    Lyon & Turnbull
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