Lot 79
  • 79

Lynn Chadwick, R.A.

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Lynn Chadwick, R.A.
  • Maquette for Oscar
  • Inscribed chadwick and numbered 9/10
  • Bronze
  • Height: 10.5 in.
  • 26 cm
  • Conceived in 1963 and cast in an edition of 10.

Provenance

Carborundum Company, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
A & J Friedman Supply Co., Inc., New Jersey (gifted from the above in 1963)

Literature

Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor: With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 1947-1988, Oxford, 1990, no. 409, illustration of another cast p. 181
Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor: With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 1947-1996, Oxford, 1997, no. 409, illustration of another cast p. 195
Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor: With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 1947-2005, Aldershot, 2006, no. 411, illustration of another cast p. 203

Condition

Bronze with a brown patina on a 4 x 6 x 6 in. marble base. No patina on points of contact with base. Surface in generally good condition, surface dirt visible in inner cleft. A few areas of exposed bronze on the interior of the sculpture. Areas of oxidation visible in deeper crevices.
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