Bowman Sculpture has sold Emily Young’s Lethans I to the University of Notre Dame, a US institution which owns several of the artist’s works already.
The piece, Lethans I, was made in 2015 by the British sculptor. The piece, measuring 19½in (50cm) high, is made of Dolomitic limestone and was offered for a price in the region of £120,000. It will be displayed in the Hesburgh Library in Notre Dame.
“The university is known for its literature courses and her work has a poetic force,” Bowman’s Willoughby Gerrish told ATG. “Added to that, Notre Dame is a place of education and the story of the stone itself introduce ideas from a geological and ecological standpoint.”
The university was a first-time client for Bowman.
The Duke Street gallery held an exhibition of Young’s work in spring 2016. Other works by the sculptor can be seen in St Paul’s Churchyard and Salisbury Cathedral.
