Œuvres d'art

Lynn Chadwick’s Boy and Girl, created in 1967, is a bronze sculpture that exemplifies the artist’s post-war British sculptural style. In keeping with his work from this era, the piece fuses sharp-edged, geometric construction with an evocative sense of humanity. It features two upright, abstracted figures built from angular planes and faceted surfaces, their simplified bodies poised on thin, leg-like supports. The composition carries both a commanding presence and a subtle tension, capturing Chadwick’s skill in translating human interaction into the language of pure geometric form.

Although the figures are highly abstract, their pairing suggests an intimate interplay—simultaneously distant yet connected, strong yet fragile. The bronze’s dark, textured finish reinforces its weight and permanence, while the tall, tapering contours give the work a rhythmic, almost architectural grace. Emerging from Chadwick’s mature period in the late 1960s, Boy and Girl stands as a unified expression where the geometry of sculpture and the emotional resonance of human relationships are inseparably intertwined.