Lynn Chadwick

Exhibited by Osborne Samuel

Material Bronze. Cast by Cera Persa Brotal, in Mendrisio, Switzerland

Dimensions 54.6 x 31.6 x 30.4 cm (21 ½ x 12 ½ x 12 in)

Status Not Vetted

About the Work

There is a cast of Winged Figures in the collections of both Tate, London, and Scottish National Galleries of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

Chadwick's Winged Figures are not allegorical beings but are a result of his intuitive dialogue with materials and process. The leitmotif throughout Chadwick's career was the paired figure. From 1953 onwards, Chadwick developed an array of typologies, whose features he inflected and interchanged. The first manifestation was Conjunction, followed by Two Dancing Figures (or simply Dance), then Encounter, Teddy Boy and Girl and Winged Figures. These were never passive meetings, or, for that matter, decorative pas-de-deux. In each instance, an electricity seems to arc between the figures.

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Provenance

The Artist
Private collection (acquired in the 1950s)
Osborne Samuel, London

Literature

H. Read, Lynn Chadwick: Artist of Our Time, Amriswil, 1960, p. 20 (another cast illustrated, as 'Maquette for Two Winged Figures'.)
W. Schmalenbach, 'Lynn Chadwick', Louisiana Revy, vol. 1, no. 2, November 1960
D. Farr, British Sculpture since 1945, London, 1965, pl. 7 (another cast illustrated)
A.M. Hammacher, Modern English Sculpture, London, 1967, no. 15 (as Maquette for Two Winged Figures)
P. Levine and N. Koster, Chadwick: The Sculptor and His World, Leiden, 1988, p. 48 (another cast illustrated)
D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2003, Farnham, 2014, p. 124, no. 172 (another cast illustrated)