Lot 162
  • 162

Lynn Chadwick, R.A.

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 EUR
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Description

  • Lynn Chadwick, R.A.
  • Beast IX
  • inscrit 206 et numéroté
  • bronze

  • H.: 91,4 cm; 36 in.
  • Exécutée en 1956, cette oeuvre est le numéro 3 d'une édition à 6 exemplaires.

Exhibited

Venise, Pavillon Britannique, Biennale, 1956, cat. no.22, illustré (le fer et la maquette exposés); exposition itinérante: Vienne, Munich, Paris, Amsterdam, Bruxelles et Londres
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, mars-mai 1957 (autre exemplaire)
Londres, Arts Council of Great Britain, Contemporary British Sculpture, 1958 (le fer et la maquette exposés)
Hanovre, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Kenneth Armitage/Lynn Chadwick, 1960, catalogue, no.48, illustré (autre exemplaire)

Literature

Architectural Review, vol.122, Octobre 1957, p.270
Louisiana Revy, 1/2, Novembre 1960, p.15
Herbert Read, Lynn Chadwick, Artists of Our Time, Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil, Suisse, 1958, p.15, illustré (autre exemplaire)
Josef Paul Hodin, Chadwick, Modern Sculptors, Londres, 1961, pl.17, illustré (autre exemplaire)
Alan Bowness, Lynn Chadwick, London, 1962, p.9, illustré;
Bryan Robertson, John Russell, Lord Snowdon, Private View, Londres,1965, pp.90-91, illustré (autre exemplaire)
Dennis Farr et Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, Aldershot, 2006, cat. no.206, p.123, illustré (autre exemplaire)

Condition

The colours of the patina are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. This work is in excellent condition.
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Catalogue Note

inscribed 206 and numbered; bronze. Executed in 1956, this work is number 3 from an edition of 6.

"'Il me semble que l'art doit être une force vitale surgie de l'obscurité, saisie par l'imagination et traduite par le talent et la manière de l'artiste. Quelle que soit la forme finale, la force qui est derrière est invisible".

Comp.

Lynn Chadwick, 1953 © The Estate of Lynn Chadwick