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Lynn Chadwick R.A. (British, 1914-2003) King II 64.5 cm. (25 3/8 in.) high (Conceived in 1964) image 1
Lynn Chadwick R.A. (British, 1914-2003) King II 64.5 cm. (25 3/8 in.) high (Conceived in 1964) image 2
Lynn Chadwick R.A. (British, 1914-2003) King II 64.5 cm. (25 3/8 in.) high (Conceived in 1964) image 3
Lynn Chadwick R.A. (British, 1914-2003) King II 64.5 cm. (25 3/8 in.) high (Conceived in 1964) image 4
Lynn Chadwick R.A. (British, 1914-2003) King II 64.5 cm. (25 3/8 in.) high (Conceived in 1964) image 5
Lot 57*,AR

Lynn Chadwick R.A.
(British, 1914-2003)
King II 64.5 cm. (25 3/8 in.) high

30 June 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £31,500 inc. premium

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Lynn Chadwick R.A. (British, 1914-2003)

King II
signed, inscribed indistinctly and numbered 'Chadwick 65/468 1/4' (at the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
64.5 cm. (25 3/8 in.) high
Conceived in 1964

Footnotes

Provenance
The Artist, thence by family descent

Exhibited
Düsseldorf, Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, 10 October-30 November 1966 (another cast)

Literature
Dennis Farr & Éva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1996, Lypiatt Studio, Stroud, 1997, p.214, cat.no.468 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Dennis Farr & Éva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2005, Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2006, p.222, cat.no.468 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Dennis Farr & Éva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2003, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2014, p.230, cat.no.468 (ill.b&w, another cast)

During the 1960s Chadwick, whilst still producing his more typical figurative work, began to also explore a more abstract style leading to pieces such as the present work, inspired by Easter Island figures, as well as pieces such as Pyramid, Star, Triad and Split (see lot 58). This was a response to the zeitgeist of the time but no matter how abstract these forms may initially appear, the artist always took the human form as his starting point. And so one can begin to recognise eyes in the perforations, heads in the triangles and bodies between the lines. The present 'King' is described using none of the spindly legs and rectangular heads that had gone before (and would still come after) but rather, looking to those ancient Polynesian heads, it stands solidly, decisively rooted to the ground and crowned with a multi-faceted heraldic head.

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

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