signed and numbered ‘0/6’ and stamped with foundry mark ‘Brotal’ on the underside
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Bird IX, 1959
Provenance:
with Galerie Gerald Cramer, Geneva
Exhibition History:
London, Canary Wharf, Bronze Sculptures from the Ingram Collection, 16 September – 15 November 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, Parallel Lines: Drawing and Sculpture, 22 June – 25 August 2019
Literature:
D. Farr & E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, Oxford, 1990 (another cast illustrated, no. 317, p. 148)
Lynn Chadwick’s brooding plane-like Bird IX is an echo of his experience as a Royal Navy pilot in the Fleet Air Arm (1941-44).