Lot 164
  • 164

Lynn Chadwick

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Lynn Chadwick
  • Paper Hat 
  • incised with artist’s initials and stamped with the date 68 and number 320B 2/4 on the base
  • bronze
  • 23 1/2 by 6 5/8 by 5 in. 59.7 by 16.8 by 12.7 cm.
  • Executed in 1968 and conceived in 1966, this work is number 2 from an edition of 4.

Provenance

Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Copenhagen, Court Gallery, Lynn Chadwick, December 1975 - January 1976, cat. no. 7, (another example exhibited)
Pangolin London; Chalford, Gallery Pangolin, Lynn Chadwick: Out of the Shadows: Unseen Sculpture of the 1960s, September - November 2009, pp. 49 and 110, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Literature

Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor. With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947 - 2003, Farnham 2014, no. 320B, p. 184, illustrated 

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is light oxidation, discoloration and some rubbing visible to the patina, inherent to the artist’s working method and chosen medium. Under very close inspection, there are several white, pinpoint accretions visible on the upper back of the figure’s right leg.
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