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Lynn Chadwick

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Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Lynn Chadwick

1914 - 2003


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inscribed Chadwick, numbered 309. 2/6 and stamped with the foundry mark Cera Persa Brotal Mendrisio 

bronze

height: 33 ½ in. 85 cm.

Conceived in 1959 and cast in 1960 by Brotal Foundry, Mendrisio; this example is number 2 from an edition of 6.


Sarah and Daniel Chadwick have kindly confirmed that this cast is recorded in the artist’s archives.

Knoedler Galleries, New York

Jean Claude Abreu, Paris

Christie's, Paris, 27 January 2011, lot 123 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1988, Oxford, 1990, no. 309, pp. 144-45, illustration of another cast

Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1996, Stroud, 1997, no. 309, pp. 152-53, illustration of another cast

Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2005, Aldershot, 2006, no. 309, p161, illustration of another cast 

Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2003, Farnham, 2014, no. 309, p. 179, illustration of another cast

New York, Knoedler Galleries, Lynn Chadwick, 1961

Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art, Lynn Chadwick, November 1990