Lot 120
  • 120

Lynn Chadwick

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Lynn Chadwick
  • Sitting Figure (One of Five Sitting Figures)
  • Inscribed with the artist's device, 74 and 583 and numbered 5/8
  • Bronze
  • Height: 4 3/4 in.
  • 14.6 cm.
  • Conceived in 1975 in an edition of 8 as a set of five figures.

Provenance

(Probably) Marlborough Gallery, New York
Hokin Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1988, Oxford, 1990, no. 617S, illustration of another cast p. 248
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1996, Gloucestershire, 1997, no. 617S, illustration of another cast p. 266
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2005, Aldershot, 2006, no. 617S, illustration of another cast p. 274

Condition

The bronze is in generally good condition with a dark brown patina and a highly polished face. The face has a few very minor nicks to the surface and there are white accretions on the bronze, especially on the chest and the back at the bottom.
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