Lot 50
  • 50

Lynn Chadwick

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Lynn Chadwick
  • Conjunction II
  • Inscribed with the artist's monogram, stamped 220 and numbered 2/9
  • Bronze
  • Height: 33 1/4 in.
  • 84.4 cm
  • Conceived in 1957 and cast in an edition of 9.

Provenance

Geert van der Veen, Toronto
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1979

Literature

Nico Koster & Paul Levine, Lynn Chadwick: The Sculptor and His World, Leiden, 1988, illustration of another cast p. 76
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1988, Oxford, 1990, no. 220, illustration of another cast p. 116
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1996, Oxford, 1997, no. 220, illustration of another cast p. 120
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 1947-2005, Hampshire, 2006, no. 220, illustration of another cast p. 128

Condition

Bronze with a dark brown patina. In overall good condition; there is some minor rubbing to extremities and surface dirt. The work does not appear to have had a wax coating recently.
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