Live Auction 2481Post-War and Contemporary Art Session II
Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003)
Lot 697

Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003)

Two Seated Figures I

Closed9 November 2011

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USD 578,500

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Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003)
Two Seated Figures I
signed 'CHADWICK' (left leg of female figure) and signed, numbered and dated 'CHADWICK 662 1973 4/6' (left leg of the male figure)
two elements--bronze with black patina
Female: 70½ x 52 x 52 in. (177.8 x 132 x 132 cm.)
Male: 67½ x 67½ x 67½ in. (171.4 x 171.4 x 171.4 cm.)
Executed in 1973. This work is number four from an edition of six.

Galerie Freitas, Caracas
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 17 May 2001, lot 169
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"It seems to me that art must be the manifestation of some vital force coming from the dark, caught by the imagination and translated by the artist's ability and skill... But whatever the final shape, the force behind it is, as the man said of peace, indivisible."

(L. Chadwick quoted in L. Chadwick, 'A Sculptor and His Public'. Listener, 21 October 1954, p. 671)