Lot 157
  • 157

Lynn Chadwick

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Lynn Chadwick
  • Stairs
  • Right figure: stamped with the artist's monogram, numbered C124 and 6/9 and stamped with the foundry mark PE
    Left Figure: stamped with the artist's monogram, numbered 124 and 6/9 and stamped with the foundry mark PE
  • Bronze
  • Height: 34 in.
  • 86.4 cm

Provenance

Galería Freites, Caracas
Acquired from the above in 2006

Exhibited

Caracas, Galería Freites; Coral Gables, Freites Revilla Gallery & Boca Raton, Freites Revilla Gallery, Lynn Chadwick, 1997, no. 38, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Lynn Chadwick (exhibition catalogue), Caracas, Galeria Freites, 1993, illustration of another cast n.p.
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue, Gloucestershire, 1997, no. C124, illustration of another cast p. 423

Condition

Black patina, variegated on the figures. Work is comprised of two separate pieces. Surface is clean. Overall in excellent condition.
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Catalogue Note

Fig. 1  The sculptor at work on one of his iconic figures, photograph by Nico Koster