Lot Essay
'The important thing in my figures is always the attitude - what the figures are expressing through their actual stance. They talk as it were, and this is something a lot of people don’t understand.'
Lynn Chadwick
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Sitting Figures in Robes I
Details
Lynn Chadwick, R.A. (1914-2003)
Sitting Figures in Robes I
stamped with the artist's initial and numbered ‘C 787S 5/9’ (on the inside of the female figure's cloak) and numbered again '787S 5/9' (on the inside of the male figure's cloak)
bronze with a black and polished patina
18 in. (45.7 cm.) wide
Conceived in 1980.
Sitting Figures in Robes I
stamped with the artist's initial and numbered ‘C 787S 5/9’ (on the inside of the female figure's cloak) and numbered again '787S 5/9' (on the inside of the male figure's cloak)
bronze with a black and polished patina
18 in. (45.7 cm.) wide
Conceived in 1980.
Provenance
with Galeria Freites, Caracas, where purchased by the present owner on 20 May 1988.
Literature
D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, with a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2003, Farnham, 2014, p. 341, no. 787S.
Exhibited
Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Lynn Chadwick, November 1990 - January 1991, catalogue not traced.
Special notice
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'The important thing in my figures is always the attitude - what the figures are expressing through their actual stance. They talk as it were, and this is something a lot of people don’t understand.'
Lynn Chadwick