signed and numbered ‘3/6’ at the rear of the sculpture
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Bird IX, 1969
Exhibition History:
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: The Impact of War, 15 October 2014 – 4 January 2015;
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, Shifting Ground, 11 November 2016 – 26 February 2017
Literature:
D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, Oxford, 1990 (another cast illustrated, no. 317, p. 156)
Lynn Chadwick’s brooding plan-like Bird IX is an echo of his experience as a Royal Navy pilot in the Fleet Air Arm (1941-44).
