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Height: 6'0"
Bust: 35
Waist: 25
Hips: 35
Hair: Red
Eyes: Blue
Shoes: 9.5
Inscr. ‘Chadwick 172 5/6’ on right thigh of the smaller figure. Bronze, 22 x 17 x 14 (56 x 43 x 36).
Not inscribed. Iron and glass, 11 1/4 x 6 x 4 (29 x 15 x 11.5). Purchased at Sotheby & Co. (Knapping Fund) 1970. Coll: Mrs L.G.Kenyon, sold Sotheby’s, 8 July 1970 (161) as ‘Maquette for The Inner Eye’, bt. Marlborough Fine Art for the Tate Gallery. Exh: Gimpel Fils, June 1952 (29).
Chadwick was commissioned to produce a memorial to commemorate the first double crossing of the Atlantic by the airship R34 in July 1919. It was intended for London (Heathrow) Airport but the commission was cancelled as some people didn't like his proposal. This is a bronze cast of the model; the full-size work was made as Stranger III. Here, a winged figure seems an appropriate subject to commemorate a feat of manned flight, while the two heads probably re
Inscr. ‘Chadwick 172 5/6’ on right thigh of the smaller figure. Bronze, 22 x 17 x 14 (56 x 43 x 36).