Maquette Diamond Wing

Details

Lynn Chadwick, R.A. (1914-2003)
Maquette Diamond Wing
signed, numbered and dated 'CHADWICK 70. 605 3/6' (on the outside of the back right leg) and stamped CHADWICK 70 605 3/6' (on the back of the back right leg)
bronze with a dark brown patina
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high, excluding the wooden base

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 2000, lot 349.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Lynn Chadwick, Milan, Galleria Blu, 1972, another cast illustrated.
D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, Aldershot, 2006, p. 270, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

Milan, Galleria Blu, Lynn Chadwick, March - April 1972, not numbered, another cast exhibited.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

By the 1970s, Chadwick had secured worldwide recognition. His work was regularly exhibited and his position in the art world had been acknowledged by the appointment (CBE) in the New Year Honours list in 1964.

The figure studies which he produced in this decade explore and develop existing themes, his work a continual logical progression.

Maquette Diamond Wing shows the versatility of Chadwick's mature style. The figures have the traditional anonymous heads, their familiar angular faces based on diamonds and triangles. By placing the two figures so close together the artist emphasises the strength of their stance with their bodies welded together, the positioning of their legs providing a tripod-like base and their diamond wings enveloping each other and overlapping. This format was to provide the basis for much of his later work.

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