Beast XVIII

Details

Lynn Chadwick (b. 1914)
Beast XVIII
cement fondu
14½ in. (36.8 cm.) long
Conceived in 1959

Literature

J.P. Hodin, Chadwick, London, 1961, introduction, no. 13 (another cast illustrated).
D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, Oxford, 1990, no. 291, p. 138 (another cast illustrated).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Dr Hodin (loc. cit.) comments on the series of Beasts, 'In them Chadwick represented the unity of all living creatures in their determinism as well as their acceptance or defiance of fate. In them he found a way of evolving his extraordinary gift of variation of a given form'.

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