Lot 9
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LYNN CHADWICK | Pair of Sitting Figures II

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lynn Chadwick
  • Pair of Sitting Figures II
  • stamped with the artist’s monogram, dated 74 and numbered 655 5/6 on the side of each sculpture
  • bronze, in two parts
  • man: 48 by 38 by 56 cm. 18 7/8 by 15 by 22 in.
  • woman: 50 by 32 by 48 cm. 19 5/8 by 12 5/8 by 18 7/8 in.
  • Executed in 1974, this work is number 5 from an edition of 6.

Provenance

Berkeley Square Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1980s

Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Lynn Chadwick, January - February 1974, illustrated (edition no. unknown)

Literature

Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1988, Oxford 1990, p. 260, no. 655, illustrated (edition no. unknown)
Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1996, Stroud 1997, p. 280, no. 601, illustrated (edition no. unknown)
Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2005, Aldershot and Burlington 2006, p. 288, no. 655, illustrated (edition no. unknown)
Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2003, Farnham 2014, p. 295, no. 655, illustrated (edition no. unknown)

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals a few white marks to the recesses that are inherent to the casting process, and a few tiny media accretions in isolated places. Further close inspection reveals some light burnishing and oxidation in places.
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Catalogue Note

“I’d already gone through the discipline of doing abstract work, because architecture is done abstractly. I’d done my exercises so I thought I’d go out into more, shall we say, organic work. It wasn’t meant to be figurative. It was more to do with the spirit of man and animal than with the actual physical being.” Lynn Chadwick
cited in: Exh. Cat., London, Osborne Samuel, Lynn Chadwick, 2004, p. 22