Sitting Woman in Robes I

Lynn Russell Chadwick was born in London in 1914 and was one of the greatest and respected post-war British Sculptors of the 20th century. Much of his work is semi-abstract sculpture in bronze or steel. His later work evolved into recognisable simplified human figures with the female head reduced to a triangle, legs straight and spike like in appearance, and drapery executed as if a flowing form. His work is in the collections of MoMA in New York, the Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Academy in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Chadwick died in 2003.