Lot 52
  • 52

Lynn Chadwick

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Lynn Chadwick
  • Back to Back
  • Inscribed with the artist's monogram and numbered C47S 1/9
  • Bronze
  • Height: 7 1/8 in.
  • 18 cm
  • Conceived in 1986 and cast in an edition of 9.

Provenance

The artist
Christie's Contemporary Art Galleries, London (acquired from the above in 1987) 
Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester
Acquired by the present owner in the 1980s 

Literature

Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1988, Oxford, 1990, no. C47, illustration of another cast p. 327
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1996, Oxford, 1997, no. C47, illustration of another cast p. 361
Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 1947-2005, Hampshire, 2006, no. C47, illustration of another cast p. 369

Condition

Bronze with a dark brown and polished patina. In overall good condition; there is some minor rubbing to extremities and surface dirt. There are minor scratches to the polished bronze. The work appears to have been waxed recently.
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