Live Auction 12153Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003)
Lot 128

Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003)

Two Watchers III

Closed11 May 2016

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Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003)
Two Watchers III
incised with the artist's signature, numbered and numbered indistinctly 'Chadwick 304' (lower right); stamped with the foundry mark 'CERA PERSA BROTAL MENDRISIO' (lower right)
bronze
55 1/2 x 37 1/4 x 17 in. (141 x 94.6 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1959. This work is from an edition of four.

Private collection, Basel
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997

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 transformed by the artist's ability and skill into painting, poetry, sometime music. But whatever the final shape, the force behind it is, as the man said of peace, indivisible. When we philosophise upon this force, we lose sight of it. The intellect alone is still too clumsy to grasp it." (L. Chadwick quoted in D. Farr, Lynn Chadwick, Tate Publishing, London, 2003, p. 104)