Lynn Chadwick (b. 1914)
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Lynn Chadwick (b. 1914)

Short Horn

细节
Lynn Chadwick (b. 1914)
Short Horn
forged iron and cement
Height: 16¼ in. (40.6 cm.)
Executed in 1954; this work is unique
来源
Mrs. H. Lessore (per 1956 Biennale, Venice exhibition catalogue).
Acquired by René Gaffé at Venice Biennale, 15 September 1956.
出版
J.P. Hodin, "Lynn Chadwick", Werk, vol. 44 (no. 3), March 1957, p. 113.
D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, Stroud, 1997, p. 92, no. 143 (preparatory drawing illustrated; with incorrect dimensions height: 45 cm.).
展览
London, New Burlington Galleries, 53rd London Group: British Painting and Sculpture, November-December 1954, no. 264.
Venice, XXVIII Biennale, June-October 1956, p. 412, no. 51 (titled Vacca Shortorn).
注意事项
This lot has no reserve.

拍品专文

René Gaffé has written of the present work:

Délaissant le marbre et le bois, ne voyons-nous pas tous les jours de grands sculpteurs se précipiter sur des métaux quels qu'ils soient, à condition qu'ils puissent, sans trop d'efforts, les plier à leur convenance et en assurer le transport par des moyens moins onéreux qu'autrefois? ...Ainsi, chaque matin que le soleil me tire du lit, j'aperçois le Taureau de Lynn Chadwick, armure d'acier recouverte de plâtre [sic] coloré et cette bête puissante, résignée, me regarde en silence. Elle ne perçoit pas les raisons secrètes qui me font assister à ses charges dont elle est généralement frustrée dans l'arène où elle est condamnée à mourir à cinq heures de l'après-midi.

Dans son 'Guadalquivir'; Joseph Peyré l'a chanté:

Taureau noir, taureau noir,
Une mort à chaque corne,
Une peine dans chaque goutte
De son sang tourmenté.


Leaving aside marble and wood, don't we find every day some great sculptors rushing to work on all kinds of metals, providing they are able to bend them without to much effort according to their needs, and ship them through less expensive means than in the past?... And so, every morning the sun pulls me out of bed, I see the 'Taureau' of Lynn Chadwick, a steel armor covered with colored plaster, and this powerful beast, resigned, stares at me in silence. It doesn't perceive the secret reasons that make me watch its charges, from which it is usually deprived in the arena where it is sentenced to die at five o'clock in the afternoon.

Joseph Peyré sang it in his 'Guadalquivir:

Black bull, black bull,
One death on every horn
One sorrow in every drop
Of his tormented blood.

(R. Gaffé, A la verticale: Réflexions d'un collectionneur, Brussels, 1963, pp. 98-99)