CLOAKED FIGURE VI, 1977
LYNN CHADWICK
bronze
24.0 x 22.5 x 9.0 cm
numbered and inscribed with artist's monogram and number at base : C / 77/753 / 2/8
bears inscription on base: 753
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2008
2007 Sculpture and the figure, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, at the Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, 2008, cat. 5
Farr, D., and Chadwick, E., Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor: With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947 – 2005, Lund Humphries, United Kingdom, 2000, cat. 753, p. 319 (illus., another example)
…By the 1970s the female head has become either a pyramidal or diamond shape, the male more aggressively rectangular. Yet always Chadwick looks for geometry and tension… The word ‘attitude’ often recurs 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…’ One can see a shift in his work away from the dancing figures of the 1950s, towards the brooding stillness of his standing and seated figures from the 1960s onwards…Just as some of his figures become winged, a theme he takes up again in the early 1970s, so in 1976 he evolves striding figures clad in cloaks…1.
Farr, D., and Chadwick, E., Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, Lypiatt Studio, Gloucestershire, 1997, pp. 11 – 12