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Property from a Prestigious Northeast Collection

Lynn Chadwick

Three Elektras

Auction Closed

May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious Northeast Collection

Lynn Chadwick

(1914 - 2003)


Three Elektras

each figure stamped with the signature L Chadwick, dated 68 and numbered 569 1/4; the central figure inscribed with the foundry mark Morris Singer Founders London 

bronze

height (tallest figure): 87 ¾ in.  223 cm.

Conceived in 1969 and cast in an edition of 4.

Please note this lot will be available for collection from Dun-Rite following the auction and the successful purchaser will be responsible for collection, shipping, and release fees. Please contact Bridget.Quinn@sothebys.com with any questions.

Lypiatt Studio, England

Atelier 74 Apollo, Zurich

Private Collection, South America (acquired from the above in 1991)

Sotheby’s, New York, 17 May 2022, lot 55 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Actualité des Arts, Paris, March 1974, no. 17

The Connoisseur, vol. 186, no. 750, August 1974, p. 281, illustration in color of another cast

Nico Koster, Paul Levine and Éva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: The Sculptor and his World, Leiden, 1988, p. 94, illustration in color of another cast

Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2005, Oxford, 1990, no. 569, p. 231, illustration of another cast

Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2005, Stroud, 1997, no. 569, p. 249, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Lynn Chadwick, 2003, pl. 5, illustration in color of another cast

Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2005, Aldershot, 2006, no. 569, p. 257, illustration of another cast 

Judith Collins and David Finn, Lynn Chadwick: The Collection at Lypiatt Park, New York, 2006, pp. 207-09, illustration in color of another cast

Caracas, Galeria Freites, Lynn Chadwick, 1993, illustrated in color on the cover