Lot 834 
834
Lynn Chadwick
Two, 1970.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 60,000 / $ 67,800 Sold:
€ 87,500 / $ 98,874 (incl. surcharge)
Two. 1970.
Bronze with green-brown patina.
Farr/Chadwick 606. With name, date, work number and numbering on one leg of right figure. From an edition of 6 copies. Height: 73 cm (28.7 in).
Apart from this cast, only one other cast of this early, large-size figure composition has ever been offered on the international auction market (source: www.artprice.com).
PROVENANCE: Villa Grisebach auctions, auction 51, 19th and 20th Centuy Art, Berlin, 8 June 1996, lot 492.
Private collection Southern Germany (since 1996; acquired in aforementioned auction).
EXHIBITION: Galleria Blu, Milan, March - April 1972 (presumably different copy).
"The word ‚attitude‘ often recurred in his conversation: ‚I would call it attitude, you know, the way that you can make something almost talk by the way the neck is bent, or the attitude of the head; you can actually make these sculptures talk, they say something according to the exact balance, whereas if they‘re absolutely straight.well, I suppose that‘s saying something, too‘.“
Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, 2006, S. 11.
Bronze with green-brown patina.
Farr/Chadwick 606. With name, date, work number and numbering on one leg of right figure. From an edition of 6 copies. Height: 73 cm (28.7 in).
Apart from this cast, only one other cast of this early, large-size figure composition has ever been offered on the international auction market (source: www.artprice.com).
PROVENANCE: Villa Grisebach auctions, auction 51, 19th and 20th Centuy Art, Berlin, 8 June 1996, lot 492.
Private collection Southern Germany (since 1996; acquired in aforementioned auction).
EXHIBITION: Galleria Blu, Milan, March - April 1972 (presumably different copy).
"The word ‚attitude‘ often recurred in his conversation: ‚I would call it attitude, you know, the way that you can make something almost talk by the way the neck is bent, or the attitude of the head; you can actually make these sculptures talk, they say something according to the exact balance, whereas if they‘re absolutely straight.well, I suppose that‘s saying something, too‘.“
Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, 2006, S. 11.
834
Lynn Chadwick
Two, 1970.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 60,000 / $ 67,800 Sold:
€ 87,500 / $ 98,874 (incl. surcharge)
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