Lot 461
  • 461

Lynn Chadwick

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Lynn Chadwick
  • Pair of Sitting Figures III
  • Stamped with the artist's monogram, numbered 656S 4/6 and dated 1973 (female figure); stamped with the artist's monogram, numbered 656 4/6 and dated 1973 (male figure)
  • Bronze
  • Length: 22 3/8 in. 56.8 cm (female figure)
  • 26 in. 66 cm (male figure)

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in 1980

Literature

Chadwick, Recent Sculptures (exhibition catalogue), Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd, London, 1974, illustration of another cast, n.p.
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1988, Oxford, 1990, nos. 656 & 656S, illustration of another cast p. 261
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1996, Oxford, 1997, nos. 656 & 656S, illustration of another cast p. 281
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2005, Aldershot, 2006, nos. 656 & 656S, illustration of another cast p. 289

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Brownish black patina. Both figures have polished gold faces. Some surface dirt in the deepest crevices. Scattered minor spots of accretion. Two hairline scratches on the female figure's right thigh, otherwise fine.
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