Lot Essay
We are very grateful to Sarah Chadwick for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.
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Pair of Sitting Figures IV
Details
LYNN CHADWICK, R.A. (1914-2003)
Pair of Sitting Figures IV
signed, numbered, dated and stamped with monogram 'CHADWICK 72 657M 2/6' (on the back of the male figure), signed, numbered, dated and stamped with monogram 'CHADWICK 72 657F 2/6' (on the back of the female figure)
bronze with a black patina
male figure: 23 1/2 in. (59.7 cm.) high
female figure: 24 1/4 in. (61.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1973 and cast in 1974 by Lypiatt Foundry, Stroud.
Pair of Sitting Figures IV
signed, numbered, dated and stamped with monogram 'CHADWICK 72 657M 2/6' (on the back of the male figure), signed, numbered, dated and stamped with monogram 'CHADWICK 72 657F 2/6' (on the back of the female figure)
bronze with a black patina
male figure: 23 1/2 in. (59.7 cm.) high
female figure: 24 1/4 in. (61.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1973 and cast in 1974 by Lypiatt Foundry, Stroud.
Provenance
Purchased at the 1974 exhibition by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Chadwick: Recent Sculpture, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1974, pp. 7, 28, no. 26, illustrated.
D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2003, Farnham, 2014, p. 295, no. 657, another cast illustrated.
D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2003, Farnham, 2014, p. 295, no. 657, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Chadwick: Recent Sculpture, January 1974, no. 26.
Special Notice
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Further Details
In the 1970s Lynn Chadwick returned to the human form, the subject becoming central again to his oeuvre. He created combinations of figural groups of up to four, five even six male and female figures. The figures are sitting, standing, and reclining, and in this way Chadwick opens new possibilities of exploring spatial relationships between forms. Chadwick always looked for geometry and tension in his sculpture, with the aim of avoiding the static.
In Pair of Sitting Figures IV, one of a series of pairs of sitting figures that he created in 1973, Chadwick has been particularly successful in portraying an alert intimacy between the male and female figure. When viewed alongside the other pairs of sitting couples that he conceived in 1973, Chadwick’s ability as one of the leading British sculptors of the 20th Century is immediately confirmed. Although all very similarly modelled, with subtle differences in the leg positioning and the angles of the heads, as well as the surface of the bronzes, each work portrays different sensations and emotions.
In Pair of Sitting Figures IV, one of a series of pairs of sitting figures that he created in 1973, Chadwick has been particularly successful in portraying an alert intimacy between the male and female figure. When viewed alongside the other pairs of sitting couples that he conceived in 1973, Chadwick’s ability as one of the leading British sculptors of the 20th Century is immediately confirmed. Although all very similarly modelled, with subtle differences in the leg positioning and the angles of the heads, as well as the surface of the bronzes, each work portrays different sensations and emotions.
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