Lynn Chadwick

Lynn Chadwick’s angular figurative sculptures pioneered new approaches to the field in the mid-20th century. Chadwick broke from traditional methods of carving wood or stone, instead welding iron and bronze into expressive, geometric figures, rather than pre-conceived plans. His sculptures often depicted human-like or biomorphic forms, though they could also border on abstraction. Chadwick participated in the 1956 Venice Biennale, where he won the International Sculpture Prize. His work has been exhibited in New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. In 2003, the year of the artist’s death, Tate Britain held a major retrospective of Chadwick. His sculptures have fetched millions of dollars on the secondary market and are held in the collections of the Musée Rodin, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Royal Academy of Arts.