Footnotes

Provenance
The Artist, thence by family descent

Exhibited
Stroud, Stroud Festival, September 1976 (another cast)

Literature
Dennis Farr & Éva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1996, Lypiatt Studio, Stroud, 1997, p.300-1, cat.no.705 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Dennis Farr & Éva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2005, Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2006, p.308-9, cat.no.705 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Dennis Farr & Éva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2003, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2014, p.315, cat.no.705 (ill.b&w, another cast)

The present and following five lots enjoy the rarest of provenance having been consigned from the artist's direct family, never previously offered for sale and in remarkable original condition, the group represents an exceptional opportunity for collectors.

Lynn Chadwick is universally viewed today as one of the foremost exponents of British Modernism with a unique sculptural language that saw his career span six decades. His work is bold and unapologetic, beginning with the intricate mobiles of the 1940s and continuing right up to the large-scale aluminium sheets of the 1990s. Chadwick's vision saw him experiment with a variety of media including balsa wood, steel, iron, glass, copper, brass, wire and of course bronze, always transformed in his own inimitable style.

Sitting Couple dates to 1976 and shows a seated male and female. The scale is intimate and perfectly suited to the tender pose of the two figures, the male gently tilts his head towards his partner and they are physically conjoined as one, only briefly separated at the neck. The typical absence of arms serves to enhance this unity with just four quietly positioned legs to demarcate their individual forms. The sculpture just predates the artist's preference to distinguish gender through triangular heads for female and square for male, here the lovers are equal in their countenance.

We are grateful to the Artist's Estate for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.