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Moore and Chadwick: A Radical Form

Forthcoming exhibition
10 September - 23 October 2025
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lynn Chadwick, Trog, 1960
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lynn Chadwick, Trog, 1960

Lynn Chadwick

Trog, 1960
Bronze
32 ⅛ x 14 ⅜ x 7 ⅝ in, 81.6 x 36.5 x 19.4 cm
Signed, numbered, dated and stamped with foundry mark '335 2⁄4 1960/LC'
Conceived in 1960-61 and cast before 1969 by Morris Singer Foundry, London as number 2 in an edition of 4
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Lynn Chadwick, Maquette II for Jubilee III, 1984
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Lynn Chadwick, Maquette II for Jubilee III, 1984
CHRISTIES ESSAY: Chadwick redefined the way human forms can be represented in sculpture, ‘seeking not to replicate pre-existing organisms but to construct new creatures and beings, relying solely on his...
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CHRISTIES ESSAY:
Chadwick redefined the way human forms can be represented in sculpture, ‘seeking not to replicate pre-existing organisms but to construct new creatures and beings, relying solely on his instinct and manual proficiency’, (N. Rogers, exhibition catalogue, Lynn Chadwick: Evolution in Sculpture, Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Blackwell, 2013, p. 6). He first began exploring the representation of human form in the 1950s, and it was a theme that continued to occupy him throughout his artistic career. Central to this practice was his investigation of how a figure moves and inhabits the space around them. As is evident in Trog, Chadwick was not seeking a naturalistic representation of a person, but rather believed in the intuitive nature of artistic reaction, striving to instil his forms with ‘attitude’ and the essence of humanity.

Chadwick frequently did not use drawings to conceive his works, instead he worked out his sculptures in three dimensions, feeling out his own way at a vast medieval manor house at Lypiatt Park, which gave him the space to work in a large studio and where he later created his own foundry. The freedom to work in this way brought about a new emphasis on geometric elements in his work and, as Rungwe Kingdon has observed, 'Lynn’s sculptural language was essentially built around triangles. The stability of a tripod, pyramid or cone, both as an actual form or as a concept to construct other forms, was intrinsic to his method. Juxtaposed triangles extended into squares, rectangles or even larger polyhedrons, could be extended further into three-dimensional, cage-like constructions creating more organic objects' (R. Kingdon (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Lynn Chadwick: Out of the Shadows: Unseen Sculpture of the 1960s, London, Pangolin, 2009, p. 3).
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Provenance

Gallery Moos, Toronto
Private Collection (purchased from above in 1969)

Exhibitions

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Lynn Chadwick, November - December 1961, no. 30, another cast exhibited

Literature

D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick: Sculptor, Farnham, 2014, no. 335, p. 191, illus. of another cast
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